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that House, and then require their attendance at another
period in the other House for a siniliar purpose. He hoped
therefore, that they would endeavour to carry out this
suggestion. He knew it would be said that the adop-
tion of such a proposition as this would give facilities to
speculations, but he apprehended that the saving of
useless expense, and simplifying the mode of legislation
with respect to these Bills, would give them a better op-
portunity of encouraging useful projects by the giving
better facilities for investigation. lie could not help
calling attention to the great mistake they had made
with resrect to railway deposits in the present session.
What could be more indefinable than to prescribe to all
parties that they should make the deposits in money,
giving them the option of investing them in the public
funds, and refusing them in the first instance
the option of making them public securities.
Their Lordships should not forget that the check at-
tempted to be put upon unfair speculation by the exist-
ing Act of the Legislature did not attach to those for
whom it was intended. Those who thought so had
surely come to that opinion upon a mistaken view of
the case. The injury fell npon third parties ; it fell
upon the mercantile interests of the country—upon
those who came under the name and character of tair
mercantile speculators. The fault was, however, that of
legislation, and he hoped that the House would agree to
any measure which would give a different effect to the
standing order of the House.
The Earl of Stradbroke said, that although there was
nothing like an approaching famine in this country or
in Scotland, he was of opinion there was such an expec-
tation in the south of Ireland, and he would favour any-
thing which had a tendency to relieve that.
The motion was then agreed to.
MITIGATING PENALTIES IN CRIMINAL
CASES.

Lord DENMAN brought in a Bill, which he had
prepared last year, to alter the existing law, so far as
to give the courts of law power to mitigate extreme pe-
nalties in cases of felony.
LOCAL BURDENS.

Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that, on a day next
week, to be afterwards named, he should move that a
Committee be appointed to inquire into the burdens
affecting landed property, more particularly poor-rates,
and what was generally termed local taxat'en.
GENERAL BUSINESS OF TIIE HOUSE.

Lord CAMPBELL said, that before the House ad-
i•-eirnecl, he should wish to make a sugg:stion to their
Lordships, as it had been determined that certain Railway
Bills might be origioated in their Lordships' House, so
he thought it would be expedient that measures of a ge-
neral nature contemplated by her Nlaj,.sty's Government
should in the same way be begun in their Lordship's
House. At present they only met to adjourn again, and
they would go on in probably the same way until within
two weeks of the prorogation, when there would he sent
up Bill after Dill, and their Lordship would find that
they had no means of duly considering them. If Bills
were to be brought forward at all, it was necessary for
their duo consideration that they should be introduced
in time. It would be w ell if the Government !vould
follow the example proposed for railroads in the intro-
duction of measures of great national importance.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said he would take
fmre that the suggestion of the Noble and Learned Lord
wal conveyed to the proper qtrarter.—(Hear, hear.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that he should
also see the matter attended to, only he thought that arty
decision on it should stand over for several days in order
that it might bp properly matured.
Lord CAMPBELL said it was important that they
entered on the busing :is early in the session, so that the
measures proposed might be properly considered. The
early part of the session they usually had nothing to
do. It was July before they had any business brought
before them, and then the Bills were read the first,
second, and third time, in such a hurried manner, that
it was perfectly impossible to consider them. The ar-
rangement he proposed would be far more satisfactory.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that if the Noble
and Learned Lord had employed his leisure with as
much advantage to the public as he had done in his re-
,sent learned work, the public would have no reason to

regret.
Their Lordships then adjo•irn ed at six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday, Feb. 6

The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'clock precisely.

RAILWAY PETITIONS. -
Numerous petitions for leave to bring in various rail-
way Bills were presented, of which the following were
among the most important, viz.: —The Leeds, York, and
Nlanchester; the York and North Midland Junction;
the Rugby awl Huntingdon; the Sou►h Walcs; the
Eastern Counties Extensions; the Great Eastern and
Western; the Monmouthshire; the Liverpnol and Leeds;
the Cambridge and Lincoln; and the Great Western
Extensions.
A great number of o her railway petitions were pre-
sented, the nature of which could not be heard in the
gallery, owing to the noise which prevailed in the House.
They were all, however, referred to the Committee on
Private Bills.

Sir GEOAGIII CLERK did not know of any impe-
diment which would be thrown in the way of Irish rail-
ways by compelling them to commerce in the House of
Lords; On the contrary, ho thought much benefit would
be the result. In the case of two competing companies,
one might commence in that House, and the other might
be brought forward in the House of Lords. The Com-
mittee of this House might sanction one of the
schemes, and the House of Lords would possibly
consider the other company as deserving of support;
the consequence would necessarily be, that instead
of facilities being afforded, the whole concern would
be brought to a stand still, and one House would say to
the other you must not pass this Bill until you have
sent it to us, in order to decide upon its merits ai to
the other competing line.

Mr. AGLIONBY—Suppose there should be no com-
peting line ?
Sir O. CLERK did not consider even in that
else that any substantial injustice would be
inflicted upon these Bills. There were standing orders
of both Houses which must be complied with prior to
obtaining their powers. lie did not therefore consider
that any possible inconvenience could arise from the
adoption of the cour6e suggested by the Select Committee.
He Vi,:ved it was the intention of his lion. Friend the
President of the Board of Trade, to introduce resolu-
tion!, which would have the effect of doing away with
any standing order that would be productive of inconve-
nience to the public business ; and this he believed
would have, the effect of obviating the difficulties appre-

hendod by the Honourable Members fur Cockermouth
and Rosclmmon. Owing to the peculiar position of
Ireland, the Go: ernmeut were anxious that every facility
should to giv..,n to the passing of all Irish railway Bills,
with a view to giving the labouring population of that
country employment when it would be most wanted,
namely, in the months of June and July next ; and he
did believe that doing so would confer one of the greatest
benefits upon that country.— (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ROSS said it would be well that all Bills not
having to encounter competition should be at once sent
to the ILuse of Loral.
Mr. GREENE caid that those Bills which should hare
been declared to have complied with the standing orders
it was recommended should be cent nt once to the House
of Lord,,_ and that would greatly facilitate the business.
Mr. W. COLLETT said that he did not think that

the benefits supposed to follow the passing of the Irish
Bills would be realised, because such Bill; as sholld not
have passed before June or July could nut be
brought into operation for some months after.
Ile considered that the Government ought to take some
means for cxpeditilg the Bills which had once been
reported to hare fulfilled the standing orders.
The SPEAKER having then read some extracts from
the report,
Mr. E. B. DEN ISON said that it would ho

a very hard case should they rescind the order
of the 7th July last, and it was right that he
should call their attention to what that resolution was. It
provided that Bills which had passed the ordeal of that
House should be entitled to go into the 'louse of Lords just
as they stood, meaning those Bills which had passed the
Standing Orders Committee. Now that was the case of
the Portsmouth group, and the London and York. Would it
not be very hard indeed if these companies, after having
gone to such enormous expense, should be
precluded now, and have to commence de novo.
With regard to the London and York line, there were
other lints to comp• to with it, and the House of Lords
would. have to take these schemes into consideration.
There was the Direct Northern Railway, and also the
Cambridge line, which wosild decidedly take up a good
deal of tame in getting through. He considered that if
the Committee woull ret more impartially, it would be
beneficial to the interests of railways generally.
Mr. WARD said that at the close of last session there
were great complaints with regard to the time occupied
in the discussion on railway Bills. There were several
parties who had been for eighty days before the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons who were never heard,
and who were afterwards told that their place of refuge
was the House of Lords. That was a position in
which a Committee, although acting impartially, eould not
avoid placing them. The question was not with regard
to the interests of a particular company, but it was a
vestion as to what decision the Legislature could come
to as to which line was the best, and it was fir, just and
proper, and wise, that the House of Lords should have
an opportunity of mature consideration on that subject.
Mr. E. DENISON said that the scheme referred to
by the preceding spm.aker was not a new one, and there-
fore the arguments made use of on the present occasion
against the measure did not apply.
Lord G. SOMEiiSET did not consider that the
House would be committing any injustice by adopting
the report. After a few further remarks from the Noble
Lord, which were inaudible in the gallery,
Sir 11. W. BARRON said it was quite impossible
that any railroad, the Bill for which might be passed
during the present session, could give employment to
the Irish people for several months to come. H. did
not say this from any opposition to the measure, but
merely for the purpose of undeceiving the House on
this subject. He hoped the House would not
depend too much upon the present project, as likely to
be of great advantage to the people of Ireland. Sup-
posing a Bill for a railway had passed both Houses, and
received the royal assent, he need not tell the House that
notices must be issued for calls, and those
calla must be made in the first place ; in the
next place, they must get possession of the line, which
all would know was a task of no ordinary difficulty.
After that it was necessary to advertise and enter into
contracts. All these things would occupy a great deal of
time, and the House would be very much deluded if
they thought that they would be giving early employment
' to the Irish poor. He could assure the House that it
would be August or September next before any new
railroad could be commenced in Ireland.
After a few words from Mr. W. COLLETT and Mr.
FORSTER, which were inaudible in the reporters' gallery,
The SPEAKER put the motion, which was agreed to.
THE MILITIA.

Mr. GREENE presented a petition praying the Cicy
vernment not to take any measures for the embodimen
of the militia during the present Session.
TEN HOURS' BILL.

Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition from
Bury St. Edmund's in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill.
COMMERCIAL POLICY.

Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition signed by the
clergy, gentry, and yeomanry of Ilminster and its neigh-
bourhood, repudiating a protectionist petition purporting
t-) coino, from that neight?ourhood, and got up by the
Society for the Protection of Agriculture, as not really
expressing the feeling of the neighbourhood, and pray-
ing the House to pass the measures proposed by the Go-
vernment fur the relief of the wants of the country.
Captain CARNEGIE presented a petition from cer-
tain landlards, tenant farmers, and other inhabitants of
West Sussex, praying for the abolition of all resrtictions
on commerce and the free importation of foreign corn.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

Mr. O'CONNELL, seeing the Right Hon. Baroret
the Secretary for the Home Department in his place,
would ask if the Right Hon. Gentleman had any objec-
tion to lay on the table of the House the communications
to which he had alluded last night, in reference, to the
distress at present prevailing in Ireland?
Sir J. GRAHAM said that he should be most happy
to lay upon the table, without delay, the communications
to which -the Hon. and Learned Gentleman referred.
There was in the report a particular case with reference
to the union of Yells, and there was also a communica-
tion from Colom.l Jones, of the Board of Works, which
would also be furnished with the others. He thought
it was important that they should be furnished without
delay, and he woull lay them on the table of the House
before they adjourned on that evening.
AMENDMENT ON SIR R. PEEL'S MEASURE.
AP-. PHILIP MILES gave notice that be woul,l, on
the }notion of the House going into Committee on the
resolutions proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet at the
head of the Government, the subject of our commercial
policy, move, as an 'amendment, that the House should
resolve itself into the said Committee that day six
months.
INTERFERENCE OF PEERS IN ELECTIONS.
Mr. COLLETT (of Athlone) gave notice that on the
19th instant he would inquire into the causes which had
led the Members for the city of Chichester and the
boroughs of Newark, Woodstock, and Buckingham to
vacate their seats, and also, whether or no, and, if any,
in what eme the resolutions of that House, providing
against the interference of Peers in elections, had been
infringed.

Friend for the information which he had afforded him.
He (Mr. James) had understood that Dr. Faraday was
completely in favour of the improvement introduced by
Mr. Nett, and that he considered Mr. Notes invention
much more simple than the other. If the case were not
so, he (Mr. James) had been much deceived.
The House adjourned at Seven o'clock.

RA/LWAY COMMITTEES.

(YESTERDAY.)

Sub-Committee No. 1.
worfra smar7ORICIOSIVER.E
NTAX.I,7OT.") 2,IIELWAY. •
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. William Challenor was then called to prove the signa-
ture of the petitioner.
Mr. Buunis would submit that the petitioner was not
pecuniarily interested, and therefore his petition could not be
received.
Mr. GauGonx—That could matter but very little, as Mrs.
Mary Challenor, who receiveJ the rents, was also a pe-
titioner.
Mr. BURKR would request that the petition of Mr. Edward
Challenor should be withdrawn.
This was agreed to, and the petition of Mrs. Challenor
being in the same words, it was taken by at once calling

witnesses.
Mr. Leather, a civil engineer, was then called to spe•ik to
the incorrectness of the datum level, as taken from Bolling-
bridge.
Mr. GREGORY would ask the witness if he understood
what was meant by the soffitt of an arch, and-whAher there
was any specific point from which a level could be taken on
the term soffitt?
Witness—The soffitt meant the whole of the centre of the
arch, and not any specific point.
Mr. BURKE—NOM any engineer be mistaken in the mean-
ing if the term soffett ?
Witness—An.engincer might certainly take it to mean the
eentro of the arch ; but it was by no means a correct term
for a point of level.
Mr. Hoskins, Professor of Architecture in King's College,
examined by Mr. GREGORY—The centre of a curve would
be called the crown and not the soffitt. The soffitt meant
the whole or any point of the arch not specified. The soffit
mot only applied to an arch, but to a ceiling of an, room,
whether horizontal or curved, but it did not literatly mean
anYlixed point; it meant the whole or under surface of any
part of architecture to which it may be applied.
Mr. BURKE—Suppose you were to find the word soffitt in
any construction to which your attention might be called,
would you mistake it for any part of the arch, or would yon
not at once sec that it meant the crown of the arch?
Witness—l should, no doubt, after consideration, learn that
the term was misapplied, but I :.hould not be able to affirm
that soffit was meant to apply to the highest part a an
arch. The word sofiitt, in architecture, was from the
Italian, and not applied to an arch, but to the under surface
of any horizontal part of the building.
Mr. Tight, Mr. Errington, Mr. Locke, and Mr. Gregory,
architects and engineers, were called on the part of the oppo•
nents, and they concurred with Mr. Hoskins that the term
soffitt" did not apply to any fixed point.
Mr. BURKE called gr. Stephenson, Mr. Vignolles, and Mr.
Bull, who said that amongst engineers the word "soffitt "
was invariably applied to the highest point of the archway.
Mr. BURKE, in reply, said that there were three points to
which they could alter their datum level, and as this was
but one, there were yet two others which, in the event of
the Committee deciding against him, he would contend for.
He must say, that this was the first period in• his experience
where he found an objection raised to a phrase so constantly
used and understood by engineers.
The room was then cleared.
After a brief conversation the parties were called in, when
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee, after consider-
ing the argments on both sides, were of opinion, that, al-
though the word " soffit" had been used in many ways, yet
that it was so commonly used in engineering construction
as well as in many Acts of Parliament to represent the crown
or height of arches; the standing orders had been complied
wit h.

Mr. GREGORY said, that as the Committee had come to
such an opinion, he would r.ot proceed with the other
petitions.
This closed the case.
TZ =OUTS ST.ELITORDSTIME (POTZE.
Ems LINE).
Mr. BURKE appeared for the promoters. The formal
notices were then proved.
Mr. COATES said he appeared for Mr. John Joseph Key, of
Regent's-park, a petitioner against the Bill.
Mr. BURKE would object to the petition being
received. The petitioner, he submitted, must be a party in-
terested, so as to be affected by the proposed line of railway.
The CHAIRMAN wished to know upon what standing order
the objection was taken ?
Mr. BunKE—Upon the ninth standing order.
Mr. COATES—That standing order applied to merits; now
he was about to object to the subscription contract. He
would prove that there was no subscription contract, inas-
much as the one submitted.to the Legislature was invalid.
In a petition against the subscription contract it did not
require the petitioner to be a party interested within his
Learned Friend's meaning of the 9th standing order. When
a contract was attached any one of the public had a right to
petition, inasmuch as an imposition upon the Legislature was
a public injury. Now he could show that the petitioner
in the present case was personally interested, but he pre-
ferred taking his stand upon the broad grounds of a public
right.
The Crimeterate, after reading the 9th standing order, said
he was rather inclined to think that a petition against so
vital a part of the measure as the stfescription contract did
not come withfn the meaning of that standing order.
The room was then ordered to be cleared.
The CHAIRMAN, having consulted the Speaker, returned,
and the parties were called in, 'when the following decision
was given by
The CHAMMAN—The Committee had to inform the agents
that having given their best consideration to the point of ob-
jection raised against the petition, they were of eph ion that
the 9th standing order was not sufficiently specific to be
bound by it, and they were therefore of opinion that the Ob-
jection should be overruled, and the petition received.
The Speaker was then announced at prayers, and the Com-
mittee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday, when the
allegations in question wiil be submitted.

Sub-Committee No. 2.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
NnwcASTLE AND DARLINGTON (TF11R.537.
AND "WALTON nizawcu) TUN T ZON
'RAILWAY.

0 Ric AND I'ITO UNIX 211CIZ LAND 1.4.1121+W1.y.
These Bill 3 were unopposed, and the Committee were 01
opinion that the standing orders had been complied with.

THE CABIBUIDGE and oribronn EAXLV7.I7.
There was a petition against this Bill from the landowners
through whose property the line would
property to the
sttahneidring orders of the
!IRE& The petition
line perLas.sn eddtht laitrotuhgeh
House had not been complied with.
sdetriment
at
of t
thhee
Mr. Ellicumbe, agent for the prometere, said he objected
to that petition. The facts of the case were that those gen-
tlemen wero members of a corporation . interested in certain
lands, as stated in the book of reference, but such was not the
case. The corporation. could only appear in a case like the
present, under their corporate seal, and not as individuals.
Mr. Pritt, agent for the petitioners, said that the present
was the first time that he had ever heard of its being
necessary for the parties petitioning to prove that they were
entitled to do so. But, even admitting that such were the
case, he considered that his clients were entitled to be heard,
fJr who was the first of the petitioners? why, the head of
Brazenose College, to whom the property belonged.
The (.31{4%111:v1,0t said—We are of opinion that Mr. Pritt
has a right to be heard on the petition.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on .Mon-
day next.

Sub-Cotnmittee No. 3.
{Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday,

LIVERPOOL, OMIVISR/TR.X, AND PRESTON

"1-7.11./LWAY.
The next case brought before the Committee was that of
the promoters of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Rail-
w:iy, with a branch to Southport. The object of the schema
is to afford a direct communication between Liverpool and
the Great Western Lines, and to open a route to the manu-
facturing districts of Yorkshire. The line passed the stand-
ing orders last session, but was thrown out in the Com-
mittee on the Bill.
Ttie formal proofs of the deposits of plans having been
given, the Committee declared that the standing orders
had bean complied with.
ILXILIC.INT:ELL 0 ell and ILILSYTII RAILWAY.
The Committee, after hearing formal proof in favour of this
railway, decided that the standing orders had been complied
with.

The Committee adjourned at half-past four o'clock
Monday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 6.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and
Special Juries.)
TFFT ATTOHNEY-GENERAL v. PYM AND OTIIMIS.

(Continr.cd from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
John. Somerton, another paper maker, corroborated the
evidence of the last witness. On one occasion he recollected
that fifteen reams vere taken away in a waggon, which were
not entered in the book.
This dosed the case for the Crown.
_

The SOLICITOR GE.7eitiAl,---inconFormity with a suggestion
of the Court, consented to drop the case against Francis Pyni,
on the ground of there being insufficient evidence to connect
him with any superintendence or management of the mill.
Mr. VALENTINE LEE, on the part of two of the Pytns,
addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that no case
nhatever had been made out against his clients. There was
not a scintilla of evidence to satisfy. any jury that either
Francis or T. B. Pym were partners in the concern, and un-
less the evidence proved partnership in the mill and
consent on the part of all the defendants in the
charges alleged in the records, it would be impossi-
ble to bring in a verdict of guilty. With, regard to the
obliteration & the stamps the evidence equally deficient.
How could the two clients whom :e0 represented be fixed
with acts which were committed
!..n their absence? They were
in London at the time n
T:.ten the alleged offences were
said to be committed. Ile concluded by calling on the
jury to reject all surmise; and suspicions, and look strictly
to the evidence adduced, and not take any of the con-
structive or mystifie:d evidence which had been given to
criminate the deice
Solicitor-
General to PrP:ee the case clearly. He contended that he
did not do si,, and adant. It was the duty of the
under these circumstances he called for a
verdict 0", not o.oilt
Thp
• so
LICTTOR- ENERAL replied.
rdeLonn CniEF BARON then summed up, and, after wing
e'..er the principal points of the evidence, concluded by saying
that a verdict of " not guilty" must pass for Francis Pvm ;
but that. with regard to Edwin, the question would be
whether he had an interest in the partnership, and if so, he
must be found guilty—if not, he would be entitled to an
acquittal. With regard to Thomas Pym and Arnold Bedford,
if they believed the evidence, the several cases were clearly
proved against them, and their duty would be to find them

firet
11 then n° offences
guiltyrrhe ofco theet
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict a
Arnold, and of not guilty against the two sous.
niesrnseglainst Thomas Bedford Pxya and
This was the onlyrame tried during the day. The penal-
ties amounted to 2,700/.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Feb. 6.
There were only two causes set dawn for hearing this day,
being on bills of exchange, and undefended.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 6.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
BUNEIDGE AND AN-OMER r. MULLETT.
The plaintiffs in this action are attorneys, and the de-
fendant was a farmer in Somersetshire.
The action was to recover the sum of N. 7s. 7d., the costs in
preparing the lease of a farm.

The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. The
plaintiff had changed the venue from Somersetshire to Lon-
don, and had successfully resisted an application to return it
to the Sheriff's Court of that county.
The facts of the case are these :—ln August, 1811, defendant
agreed to lease a farm from Mr. Wm. Gregory Gardino,r, a
brother of one of the plaintiffs, on the same terms as it had
been previously held by a person named Besley, and defen-
dant was to pay one half the lease. The lease was
prepared, but two fields had keen taken off from the
farm, and defendant refused to execute the lease,
and said he could not pay. the rent ;- he also said that
he did not think it fair to take the fie!ds off the farm, but
he supposed lie must take it. He took to the farm, but
did not keep up his rent, which would have been a forfeiture
of the lease, had it been executed. Mr. Gregory Gardiner
subsequently told defendant that he had not paid his moiety
of the expenses of preparing the lease, and defendant then
said that he knew it ; he would pay.
Mr. EDWARDS, for the defendant, considered it very op-
pressive on the part of the plaintiff to drive the defendant
and his witnesses upwards of 153 miles, when the matter
could have been tried at Taunton, and where the custom of
the country Leith regard to leases would have been
better known. He then contended that Mr. llurridge was
acting as the agent of the landlord, :and that supposing
the contract to have been entered into, the plaintiffs were
bound to look to the landlord, who could recover against the
tenant. In the next place, if there had been a contract with
plaintiffs to prepare the lease, it had to lee established th
the lease had been drawn in acordance with his instroctions.

He calk(' witnesses to show that defendant had always re-
pudiated the lease, and refused payment.—Yerdiet fur the
defendant.

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INS-URA:OSCH c 0 riscr S.
Dividend Amount •
00 tine et Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- -
£ s. d. s. d.
Albion .............. 3/. 10.5 500 0 0 50 0 0 71
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19;0
Jato Marine....... 6/. par cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 G%
Atlas 13s. Ed. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16
British Commercial .. 7s. per shut 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Cleriel,Med..Yo Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 600
County • . . • „ „ 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
9s. and
Crown 6/. ss. bs.} 40 0 0 5 0 -
Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5M
Economic Life.
.i 1030 0 0 250 0 0
&P3"s .bs 0
Eng.& Scot. Law • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 20i
European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 An paid. 20
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe
Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 10 0 43
Imperial Fire •• • • 12/. per cent. 503 0 0 50 0 0 240
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 125. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1604
Indemnity Marine. •• • 11. eh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
31. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 51
Legal and General Life - • 50 8 0 2 0 0 6',0
Loudon Fire • ••• • • • 100. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15S
London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
Marine -•••• • • • • 51. per cent. 160 00IIS 0 0 10,0
Sled. Invlid& Gen. Life 00 0 0 2 0 0 X
National Loan Fund • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life.... •.. • • 01. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9%
Palladium Life ••. • • Si. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os.
Pheanix •••• • • . • • • 3/. p. ct. & be. - 205
Protector Life ... • •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 IL os.
Prolident Lift .••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life •.•••• • • • • • • 43. b 0 0 010 0 4U
Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 1130
Sun Fire ....... • • .. 6/. 10s. 210
Ditto Life
Universal Life ..... • 10001. pr cut. 100 0 615 0 18
•
LIST Or SCOTTIS3 COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Namo of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 171
Royal Ilank•of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162
British Linen Company 8l per cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank .• •• 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 166
National Bank 6l. per cent. -• 10. 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 714/. pr cent. -- .50 0 0 98%
Western Bank • • - 50 0 0 81%
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 70,
Clydesdale. Bank.... • . 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank ••• • • 57. per cent. - 10 0 0 1114
• Caledonian Bank ••.• • 7%1. pr cent. - 2 10 0 0%
Etlinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 710
City of Glasgow Bank . bl. per cent. - 815 0 14%
i Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1
Ilcrcules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 141,4
) Instil*. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
I North British Incur. •
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Edinburgh. Life Instil*. (31. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19%
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 61. percent. 00 0 0 50 0 0 76%
Ditto, 34 Shares • •
'• &lin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0- 20 0 0 21%
Giese:l-v & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70
O C•las;;0v & Greenek Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 111 paid. 21
Glsgw St Ganikirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45
t Dundee Arbrotli nail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 351,
Standard Life Asesrnce.i 51 per cent. 150 0 0 I 210 0 1 8

citrz.

Amount

417. I Paid. Price.
Share.

s. d.
Stock.
ent. Stock.
;h. 100 0 •
cnt. Stock.
nt. Stock.
!tit. SO 0 0

.L 3.

X s. 1.

5$ 0 0

1341.1

Names of E Di 1 ai Divividend, nice. Names or 2.),
- 1
..; denc:
Companies. 5 pct' Companies .1 u
At mm.
2 Annum. co per Price.
--- -
.£ X
Aphtn & 01.111 97 51.50. p a 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. 166
Aehby-d-la-Z 113' 41. 72 Mntgontrysh 100 51. 55
Barnsley •• .. 160 121. 180 Macelesteld. 1001 - 95
Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath .
Brknkikabrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham -
Cromfbrd.... 100 141. 150 Peak Forest 74 31. 40
Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's :... 33 1/. 53. 26
Derby
Ellsmrs&Chs 133 41. 65 Shropshire .• 125 8/. -
Erewash • -1100 321. 300 Soinrsct Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clyd; 100 4/. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11
GrandJ unc in: 100 71. 95 StfTrd &Wore 140 281. 300
Grand Unlon'loo 11. 10s. -- Shrewslyary.. 125 151. 230
Glamorgnsh .1172 13%1. 210 Slourirldge.. 145 201. 270
tilstr B:,l3rklyl, 00 - - iStrtfrdcn Ay 79 11. 103. -
Grantham • • .159 121. 100 ISevern and}
26 11. 83. 32
Huddersfield. 67 --- Wye Rail.
liTennt Se Avu 391 7s. 6d. 22 'Unit Ss MI 50 30L -
Lancaster .• • 47. U. la. .- sey,l,4 sit.
Leeds& Livrp 100' 341. 520 Timms &Med 19 - -
Leicester .. • • 'l4O, 101. 105 IWorcer & 1
7S 2/. 44
Leicstr &Nth ~.3 4/. 65 1 Binning. - '
LoughbOrogl,ll2l 701. 650 ilVilts Sz. 11/ ks 67 11. 11
....--_
WA"..r.7.72,-1.V012.U.S
..-
Di vidend Amount 1
Name of Company. i per of Paid. I Price
Annum. Share.

Mast London •• •
Grand Junction ••• • • • 37:

Kent • •

21. 103

Vauxhall
West Illak11.;:sex ••• • • • 51.55. pr ent.

£ s, 41.
100 o 0
46 13 4
100 0 0
100 0 0
63 12 9

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Last Night's Gazette.)
kn Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, oap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 31st day ofJanuaryt 1846.
• ISSUE! DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued•. • • •• •• 26,587,355

26,587,335

Dated the sth day of February,

BANKING Di
X.
•
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest .. ........ .... 3,451,151
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-

viaend accounts) . • 4,3 S 9,810
Other deposits •. • . 1 i,030,u 30
Seven day and other
bills ••••.. . • • . .. 987,102

Z 40,417,893

Government debt • • 1 1 ,0175,' 00
Other securities •• • • 2,931,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,928,915
Silver bullion • . 1,5" 8,4 10

£26,487,355
M. MARSHALL Chief Cashier.
1816.

,EPAIITMENT.

Government securi-

Dated the sth day of February,

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 13,137,047
Other securities •• .. 21,466,95,7
Notes • • •
Gold and silver colu• . 700,969

44P,417,53
M. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
1846.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL-CHAMBER,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, FEB. 4, 1846.
Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins, of Trewithen, in the
county of Cornwall, E,q., has been appointed Sheriff of the
county of Cornwall.
DOWNING-STREET, Fan. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Gibson
Gordon, Esq., to be Provost Marshal for the Virgin Islands.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 6.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.

_
COUNTY OF SUSSEX—EASTERN DIVISION.—CharIes Hay
Frewen, Esq., of Northiam, in the county of Sussex, in the
room of George Darby, Esq., who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
City of Cork— Alexander M'Carthy, Esq., of Upper Fitz-
william-street, in the city of Dublin, in the room of Francis
Stock Murphy, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward
of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead.
Borough of Ripon—The llonourable Edwi.l Lascelle, of
Ilarewood House, in the county of York, and of Belgrave-
square, in the county of Middlesex, in the room of the Right
Honourable Thomas Berry Cusach Smith, who has accepted
the office of Master of the Rolls, in Ireland.

County of York—West R i ng—George William Frederick
Howard, commonly called Viscount Morpeth, in, the room of
the IJon. John Stuart Wortley, now Baron Wharneliffe, called
up to the House of Peers.
, _ WAR OFFICE, FEh. 8.

4th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. T. Jones, from the 15th Light
Drafroons, to be Lieutenant, vice Souter, -alto exchanges,

7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet P. Bunbury to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Arkwright, who retires; N. De la Cherois,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,- vice Banbury, Feb. 6.
15th ',lett. Dragoons—Lieut. R. &niter, from the 4th
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, who ex-
changes, Feb. 6.
Ist (the Royal) Regiment of Foot—Capt. W. Webster,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice R. Blacklin,
who ex,:hanges, Feb. 6.
45th Foot—Lieutenant 11. W. Woodbine Parish to be
CaptaLa, by purchase, vice Lucas, who retires; Ensign L. T.
Cave t.D be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pariah ; F. It Grant-
ham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cave, Feb. 6.
52d Foot—Ensign H. M. Archdall to be Lieutenant by
parch; Leo, vice Hawkins, who retiree ; T. H. Vyvyan, Gent.,

to bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Arclll.lll ; G. 11. Dundas,
Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Skene, deceased, Feb. 6.
56th Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Pater, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Smith, who retires; Ensign J. S. Hanson, to
be Lieutenant, vice Patel, • W. W. Bassett, Gent., to be
~
En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hanson ; Feb. 6.
57th Foot—Lieut. E. Stanley to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Lynch, deceased, Dec. 29, 1845.
78th Foot—Assistant Surgeon J. Leitch, M.D., from the
94th Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Innes, appointed to
the 4th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 6.
92d Foot—The Hon. W. Charteris to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Carnegie, appointed to the Grenadier Regiment
of Foot Guards, Feb. 6.
97th Foot—Lieut. M. A. Obert to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Garforth, who retires; Ensign E. D. Harvest to be,
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Obert ; T. E. Jokes, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harvest, Feb. 6.
Ceylon Rifle Regime:it —Lieutenant-Colonel H. Simmonds,
from the S. Helena Regiment,' to be Lieutenant Colonel,
rice A. Montreser, who- retires upon half-pay unattached,
Feb. 6.

St. Helena -Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ross, from
half-pay unaAactied, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sim-
moods, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Feb. 6.
linsvrr.—Surgeon A. P. Jackson, M.D., Surgeon of the
East India Company's Depot at Watley, to have the local
and temporary rank of Stair-Surgeon of the FirA Class,
while so employed, Feb. 6.
th.TATTACIIED.—To he Captain, without purchase—Lieut.
'W. Webster, from the Ist (Royal) Regiment of Foot, Feb. 5.
STAFF.—Lieutenant A. G. Moorhead, from the 26th Foot,
to be Adjutant of a recruiting district, vice Mason, whose ap-
pointment has been cancelled, Feb. 6, 1816.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Stall' Assistant- SUrgCOll F. R. Waring

to be Staff-Surgeon of tho Second Clan, Dec. 15 1845.
ME.7:I•)RANDU3L—Captain C. S. S. ETans, 76th Foot, and
Lieutenant li. A. G, Evans, 22d Regiment, have been per-
mitted to assume and bear the name of Gordon, in addition

to and after that of Evans.
The name of the Assistant Surgeon, appointed to the 94th
Foot, en the 23d January 1816, is James Leitch, M.D. and
not Luteh, as previously stated.
Erratum in the Gazette of April 11, 1845915 t Regiment
of Foot—For Emign It. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Harding. who resigns, April 11, read En-
sign R. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Harding, deceased, Jan. 13, 1815.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Fan. 6.

Royal Regiment of Artillery— Second Captain C. 11.
Burnaby to be Captain, vice Shepherd, deceased ; First Lieut.
C. J. B. Riddell to be Second Captain, vice Burnaby; Second
Lieut. H. Mercer to be First Lieutenant, vice Riddell, Dec.

12, 1845. • •
MEmonANnum.—The dates of the promotion of the under-
mentioned officere have been altered as follow:—Captain J.
Hile; Second Captain J. 11. Lefroy ; First Lieutenant IL

_
Ph clips, Nov. 30, 1845.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Major-Qcncral E. W. Durn-
ford to be Colonel Commandant, vice Sir F. W. Mulcaster,
deceased, Jan 29.
Commisiion by the Queen.
-

East Kent Regiment of Militia—C. Winter, Esq., late
Captain in the 60th Regiment of Foot, to i)e Adjutant, Dec.
31, 1843.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford.
R. P. C. Grenville Marquis of Chandos to be Deputy-
Lieutenant, Feb. 3, 1846.
Commission by the Lord-Limtenant of the county of Kent.
West Kent Regiment of Militia—Captain T. G. Mony-
penny to be Major, vice Dalison, resigned, Jan. 20; Captain
T. T. Hodges to be Major, vice BingliAm, resigned, Jan. 21 ;
Ensign M. H. Dalison to be Captain, vice Tyssen, resigned,
Jan. 20; F. F. J. Morrice, Esq. to be Captain, vice Baldwin,
resigned, January 21; G. Perkins, Esq., to be Captain,
vice Moneypenny, promoted, January 22 ; M. H. Jen-
ner, Esq., to be Captain, vice T. T. Hodes, promoted,
January 23 ; J. Coveney, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
R. Hodges, commuted his half-pay, Jan. 20; C. G. King,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice How, deceased, Jan. 21;
R. T. G. G. Monypenny, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Potter, re-
signed, Jan. 20; J. M. Wilson the ;veil:ll;4er, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Dalison. promoted, Jan. 21; W, Sankey, Gent., to
be Surgeon, vice Sexty, deceased, Jan. 31.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign W. A. Munn to
be Captain, vice E. H. Darell, resigned, Jan. 20; C. A.
Mount, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Payne, resigned, Jan. 21;
W. Leith, Gent., to be Lieut., vice Baker, resigned, Jan. 22 ;
11. Maxivell, Gent., to be Lieut., viceCurnining, promoted, Jan.
23 ; T. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Love, promoted,
Jan. e 9; J. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Perrott, pro.
noted, Jan. 30..
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
. .

Royal Berkshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant E.
Wheble to be Captain, rice Bacon, promoted, Dec. 29
Fl. Pole, Gent., to be lieUtenant, vice Wheble, promoted, Dec,
30.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire.

Royal Perthshire Militia—Captain R. Graham. late Cap.
taro in the 68th Regiment, to be Captain, vice J. S. Menzies
resigned; F. N. Menzies, Gent., to be Captain, vice A. But.
ter, resigned; J. Isdale, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice D. Ro.
tertson, deceased, Fob. 3.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Caithness-shire.
Ross-shire, &c., Militia—T. F. Sinclair, Esq., to be Cap
taro, vice John Sinclair, resigned, Jan. 1; J. C. Laing, Gent.
to be Lieutenant, vice A. fitnilerson, resigned, Jan. 27.
WHITEHALL, J.‘s._2B.

The Lord Chance!lor has appointed Thomas Amphlett, of
Sutton Coldfield, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
'WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.
The Lord Chancollor has appointed James Philcox, the
younger, of Burwasb, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.