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EVENING, MARCH 15, 1846,

case as much as 4751. was given for a single I
vote. Did the House suppose that such a sum would
have been paid for a vote if the party plying it did
not consider that it would be a profitable outlay ?
There was an opinion fast gaining ground among the
people out of doors that they were not properly re-
presented, and they would demand as a right that
they should be fairly represented in this House.
The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Bute said the
Committee did not restrain the petitioners from enter-
ing into the general charge of bribery and treating.
He said—" We found there was bribery, but
we could not discover for which candidate
it was paid."—(Hear, and laughter.) Now what a
searching inquiry that must have been which could
not make such a discovery.—(Hear, hear.) To him
the inquiry did not appear a very searching
one. Why, they had the admission of the sitting
Member, who they must suppose represented
the virtue of the place, that the majority of the voters
were corrupt ; and under such circumstances, was the
Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J.
Graham) to get up in his place, and move sim-
ply that the debate be adjourned ? Let the
House " assume some virtue if it have it not."
Out of doors the people were dissatisfied at the con-
duct of the House with respect to these matters—
they were becoming sullen, and declined to
make any application to the House, because
they were impressed with the idea that they
did not fairly represent them.—(Hear.) The people
were willing to conform to the established state of
things if they were fairly represented. Proof of this
was to be found in the fact that there was not the same
demand for a republic here as in France. Those who
were guilty of such conduct as that pursued
with respect to this borough ought to be punished
with the utmost rigour of the law. Unless this
was done, and the people more fairly dealt with,
anarchy and confusion could not fail to be the result.
Sir G. GREY thought the Hon. Member had
expended a great deal too much virtuous indignation
with respect to him. He had even taken a phreno-
logical survey of his head.—(Laughter.) He hoped
that nothing he had done on this occasion
had thrown any discredit upon his phreno-
logical skill.—(Prolonged cheering.) He in-
stanced the cases of Lancaster and Carlisle.
because he thought they should follow the course
adopted with respect to those boroughs ;—nothing, ho
assured the House, but considerations of justice in-
duced him to take the course he had.—(Loud cheers.)
All boroughs charged with bribery should, he thought,
be dealt with equally; and he did not think it
just that the Honourable: Member, after having
the report of the Committee of 1842 before him
for nearly "even years, which stated that bribery
was there committed—after allowing it to slum-
ber for all that period that he !should come
down to the House now, and with great virtuous in-
dignation, wish to visit the sin of the constituency of
1842 upon the constituency of 1848.—(Loud
cheers.) It was because such a proposition was
unjust, that he had taken the course he had.—(Loud
cheers.) But he was willing to bow to the decision
of the House.—(Hear.)
The motion for the issuing of the writ, and that
for the adjournment of the debate, having been ac-
ceded to,

The SPEAhER then put the motion, that the
issuing of the writ •be suspended until the evidence
was before the house.

Mr. MO WATT rose amidst much impatience on
the part of the House. He eulogised the sentiments
enunciated by Lord Palmerston, that the House
should be purified of those who had been
improperly returned to it. The conduct of the
Noble Lord presented a remarkable contrast—he
might almost say: it :contrasted! shamefully with the
avowal of the Right lion. Baronet (Sir G. Grey).—
(Cries of "Oh !") He admitted however, that
he qualified his sentiments in some measure.
Lord PALMERSTON rose to order. lie hoped
his Hon. Friend would withdraw the word " shame-
fully"—(Loud sheers)—which no doubt had fallen
from him in consequence of not being used to the
House.

Mr. MOWATT most readily withdrew the ob-
jectionable phrase. Being a new Member must plead
as his excuse.—(Hear, hear.) He certainly under-
stood the Right Hon. Baronet to be the advocate of
the present system of corruption.—(Cries of " Oh ! ")
Sir G. GREY wished to say one word.—(Cheers.)
He felt deeply indebted to the House for this assur-
ance of its confidence in him.—(Cheers.) After such
an expression of feeling it would be wholly unecessary
to say another word.—(Prolonged cheering.) Any-
thing he could say, he was sure, would utterly fail
to show the House he was blameable.—(Hear.)
Mr. S. WORTLEY (the Chairman of the Com-
mittee) explained that the words " no evidence to
show" were introduced by the Committee into the
resolution he had drawn up.
Mr. MUNTZ said that the people looked upon
such conduct as that shown to have taken place at
the last election for Harwich with ineffable contempt.
The Right Hon. Baronet had said, as they had not
visited the sins of the electors of 1842 upon them that
they should not do so upon those of 1848. This was
an extraordinary statement. Why, if they did not
punish these guilty parties now, they would have no
future opportunity of doing so. Not punishing them
would be taken as a precedent in other cases of a
similar nature. On account of such proceedings,
his constituents, and the people in other parts of
the county, entertained great doubts of the honesty
of the House. If all who spoke so strengly against
such conduct were to act as resolutely as they seemed
disposed to do, all the difficulties in the way would
be removed in a week. If steps were not immedi-
ately taken by the House to punish such conduct, and
to put an end to it, proceedings out of doors
would be taken to accomplish the desired result.
Captain ELLIOT defended the Committee, of
which he was a member. There was no ground for
saying that the House favoured thcse petitioned
against on the score of bribery, as almost in every
instance of disputed returns during the present session
thejMembers petitioned against had been unseated.
How, then, could Hon. Members be accused of coun-
tenancing such proceedings ? Hon. Members should
support the legislation and decisions of the House,
instead of casting discredit upon them, and making
them unpopular with the country. The Hon.
Member for Finsbury complained that the Committee
did not sufficientlyinvestigate the evidence adduced be-
fore it. He denied that this was so. If not he hoped the
lion. Gentleman would investigate their conduct
elsewhere in his judicial capacity; though, from the
deficient acuteness he had evinced on this occasion,
he should be sorry to put himself under his hands.—
(Roars of laughter.)
Mr. B. OSBORNE considered that there was a
" mock" modesty in the House respecting proceedings
relative to cases of bribery, and a laugh was instinctively
raised when such subjects were introduced.—(Hear,
hear.) There was no assimilation between the cases
of Lancaster, and Carlisle, and Harwich. The last
was a monstrous one. It was a new " dodge" to
taunt Hon. Members with acting unfairly when they
spoke openly and fearlessly with respect to such
places.
Sir W. HE ATIICOTE could not avoid expres-
sing his indignation at the remark which had been
directed against the Right Hon. Baronet opposite,
while he could assure the House that the under-
standing come to last night was not that the writ
should be postponed till the minutes were laid upon
the table, but that it should be postponed till the
report of the committee was in the hands of Hon.
Members.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUME was quite certain that his Hon.
Friend the Member for Finsbury meant no offence
to the Right Hon. Baronet in the observations he
had addressed to the House. No doubt his Hon.
Friend had spoken warmly upon the subject before
the House, but the House must bear in mind that the
Right Hon. Baronet drew a comparison between
Harwich and Carlisle and Lancaster, which certainly
was not justified by the evidence taken before the
Committees. lie was confident that his Hon. Friend
meant no personal offence towards the Right Hon.
Baronet, and all that could be said of the remarks
his Hon. Friend had made was, that they betrayed
an error of judgeseat_(Hear.) With regard to
what had
ijust fallen from the Hon. Baronet opposite,
he, for one, understood just the contrary to what was
stated by the Hon. Baronet. He understood that the
writ was not to be moved for till the minutes, as well
as the report, were before thern.—(Hear.)
Mr. BROTIIERTON felt himself called upon to
confirm what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet
opposite, and to protest against the language applied
to the Right Hon. Baronet by the lion. Member for
Falmouth.
Mr. MOWATT trusted the House would allow
him to say one word in explantion. He had no
personal motives in applying the observations he did
to the Right Hon. Baronet, but all that he intended was
to express his disapprobation in the strongest language,
the usages of Parliament would admit of at the con-
duct of the Right Hon. Baronet in wishing to bring
forward the issuing of the writ —(lean)
The motion for the production and printing of the
minutes was then agreed to.
ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of
this Bill being read,
Mr. HENLEY presented a petition from the elec-
tors of Warrington against the Bill.
Mr. WALPOLE, in moving the second reading
of the Bill, said he would endeavour to state as shortly
as possible the provisions of the Bill, though after the
exciting debate which had just closed he could hardly
hope to receive the attention of the House. It would
be in the recollection of the House that in the
course of the present session a number
of petitions had been presented complaining of the re-
cognizances entered into for prosecuting certain election
petitions, but upon the advice of counsel it was found
that it would be dangerous if the House allowed those
election petitions to be entertained. The House must

bear in mind that it was now sitting in a judicial
capacity, having the interest of the sitting Member
and his constituents to protect, and it was to enable
thellouse to protect the interest of those two parties
that this Bill had been brought in. He rested the
support of the Bill upon two cases, namely, the
Leicester and Walsall election petitions. In the first
case, the examiner of recognizances, although he had
some doubt as to their validity, passed the recogni-
zances ; but they were afterwards pronounced to be
insufficient, and the case was thereupon stopped
altogether. In the other case, however, the examiner
of the recognizances allowed the parties to amend
their recognizances, and upon their putting in such
amended recognizances, the case was allowed to
go on. It would be seen that these two eases in the
first instance were exactly alike. There was some
informality in the recognizances, but the examiner
overlooked the informality in the one instance, and
called upon the parties in the other to amend. In
the latter case the parties were allowed to proceed
with their petition, but in the other the parties were
deprived altogether of a remedy against what they
considered to be an invalid return; and the ob-
ject of the present Bill was to remove this
anomalous state of things.—(lfear, hear.) The
task he had undertaken was a most unthankful one,
but in the conscientious discharge of his duty he
could adopt no other course than to lay the present
Bill on the table of the House. It was a measure,
however, that, whatever might be the objections to it,
ought not to be met by such an amendment as that
which was to be proposed by the Hon. Member for
Warwickshire. The Hon. Member trusted that the
House would allow the Bill to be read a second time.

Mr. SPOONER then rose to move the following
amendment :—" To leave out the word ' That' in order
to add the orders referring the petitions presented
against the returns of Members to this House for the
boroughs of Bodmin, Cheltenham, Leicester, and
Walsall, the city of Dublin, and the county of Long-
ford, to the General Committee of Elections, which
petitions are mentioned or referred to in the
said Bill, be discharged, and that no further
proceedings be taken on the said petitions.' "
He thought justice would not be due by giving
the second reading of the Bill a direct negative
and such being his opinion, he had determined,
thinking it the best ceurse he could pursue, to move
the amendment, of which he had given notice, and
in doing so he could assure the House he was not
actuated by any party motive or party views. The
Bill set out by stating that doubts existed. He
denied that any doubts did exist.—(Hear, hear.)
It was the duty of the petitioners, with the assistance
of their legal advisers, to see that the petition was in
compliance with the required forms, and he did
not think that the House ought to interfere to
cure the omissions caused by the negligence of
those parties.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to
the Cheltenham election petition, he thought that the
omission complained of did not arise from negligence,
for it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Coppock,
who was examined before the Committee, that
he had properly prepared the recognizances in Lon-
don, and that they were sent down perfect
to Cheltenham, where an alteration was made by
striking out the important words, " each and every
one of them." He thought, therefbre, that this House
ought not to pander to such cases. He deprecated
any alteration of the laws for ex post facto purposes,
instead of receiving a full and deliberate discussion
by the House, such as the importance of the case
required. He felt himself, therefore, bound to move
the amendment which he had read to the House.

Sir GEORGE GREY said that he thought a
remedy might be found for those inconveniences
which, it was alleged, some Hon. Members were put to.
As one of the members of the Committee to whom the
Cheltenham election petition was referred, he con-
sidered with the other Hon. Members in what way it
would be best to provide a remedy for the evils com-
plained of. He entirely concurred with the sugges-
tion offered to the Committee by the Honour-
able and Learned Member for Midhurat
(Mr. Walpole), and he thought that the Bill
founded on that suggestion, and which was now
before the House, would provide a sufficient remedy
for the evils cemplained of, and as a member of that
Committee he was prepared to give the Bill his most
cordial support, and to vote in favour of the second
reading. He trusted that the House would not con-
cur in the amendment proposed by the Hon. Member
for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner) ; it would be setting
a most dangerous precedent, causing a resolution of
the House to supersede an Act of Parliament.
Mr. LAW considered that Committees should in
the first instance inquire into the validity of the
recogniaances at the time the endorsement was made.
He objected to the amendment of the Hon. Member
for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner), because he
thought it would not be well to interfere, by
a resolution of that House, with an Act of Parliament.
He recommended his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr.
Walpole) to adopt his suggestion, and to make it the
primary object of his measure. A middle course
would best meet the justice of the case.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the
amendment, on the ground that it might lead to a
tyrannical exercise of the power which it would give,
and would take the question of privilege out of the
hands of the House.—(Hear.) If the amendment
was negatived he should give his support to the Bill.
Mr. HILD YARD did not concur in the opinion
just delivered by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
though he by no means wished it to be under-
stood that he. was favourable to the second
reading of this Bill. He, however, saw no
objection to the amendment of his Honourable Friend
the Member for the county of Warwick ; but there
were objections, and exceedingly strong ones, too,
to the provisions of the Bill itself. In the first place,
the Bill itself partook of an ex poste facto law, and the
House ought always to be extremely cautious in
adopting a measure based upon that principle.—
(Hear, hear.) To remedy the defects which the Bill
proposed to remove he would give the Court of Com-
mon Pleas jurisdiction to decide whether recogniaances
were ipso facto void, and if this Bill were withdrawn
another measure could be introduced to establish
the jurisdiction he had suggested.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir R. H. INGLIS had strong objections to the
five propositions contained in the report presented to
the House on the subject, amd, of course, entertaining
such objections, he could not support the Bill
or the amendment, because they were both
founded upon those propositions. The House
ought to take care not easily to part with its juris-
diction in these matters of election petitions; and he,
therefore, hoped the House would neither pass this
Bill nor adopt the suggestions of the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman who bad just resumed his seat.—(Hear.)
He thought the best course would be to let matters
stand as they did at present till the end of the session,
and then bring in a Bill to regulate the whole election
law in future, if it was thought necessary.
Mr. ANSTET objected to the Bill because it
was a private Bill and an ex post facto Bill. Such
being the case, he asserted—and he did so
advisedly—that if the Bill was passed, it would
never have the force of law. He should record his
vote in favour of the amendment of the Honourable
Member for Warwickshire.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided on the question, that all the words
after " That" should be omitted.

Noes ..._ .
126

Ayes
Majority -2
The House then divided on the question that the
amendment should be inserted.

Ayes .. .. .. .. 78
Noes .. • • .. .. 165
Majority .. .. ••• -------67
So that the only word left in the main question was
" that." There was no time, however, to take
any further division on the subject, the hour of six
o'clock having passed.

SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY
AUCTION.—(TIIIS DAY.)
The sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. La-
mond and Co., went off with considerable spirit, con-
sidering the great excitement regarding foreign affairs.
The following are a few of the principal quotations:—
Namur and Leige, ex int £3 17 0
Eastern Counties
Great Northern
North British, Thirds
Northern of France ..
North Staffordshire
Madrid and Valencia 0 12 6
Boulogne and Amiens ... 5 5 0
Birmingham and Oxford Junctiosi ..... 21 0 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 6 15 0
Buckinghamshire
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and G001e... 0 14 0
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 13 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 0 0

übiquitous
Mr. JOSEPH ADT AT NEASH.--•This
personage, we are informed, has been trying his "much-
to-your-advantage" scheme at the above town, in the
course of the last few days. It would appear that the
gentleman is getting more liberal the older he gets.
His charge is now reduced from one guinea to 6s.—The
Cambrian.
SHOCKING MILL AlClDENT.—Yesterday week, an
inquest was held at the house of'. Mr. Thomas Walton,
the Queen's Arms Inn, Manchester road, on view of the
body of a youth aged 16 years, named Richard Mang-
han. It appears that the deceased was employed at
Messrs. Waud's mill, and on the previous day ho had
got entangled in one of the 'straps, by means of which
he had one leg and one arm torn completely from his
body. The poor unfortunate lad only survived the acci-
dent about twenty minutes. The verdict of the jury was
" Accidental death."—Leeds Mercury.
THE NEW COIN OP THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.—
In a few days the Mint of Paris will, says the Consti
tutionnel, begin to strike coin in the name of the Repub-
lic. The old dies of Dupre representing Hercules sup-
ported between the Nation and the Law, with some slight
alterations, will, it is said, be used for the new coin,
until a final decision shall have been come to by the Na-
tional Assembly.

KING O'PHILLIPS FOR IRELAND.
(From Punch.)

CH-s-LM A-ST- Y T 9 JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P.

" Sir,—Although I have not yet made it a part of my
impeachment of Lord Palmerston, I intend to do so.
Yes ; the accusation—l have to preter—will be con-
tinued in my next. In tho mean time, I take the
widest, the strongest, and the deepest means (need I
allude to the pages of Punch ?) to inform all Ire-
land of the chains at this mement being forged
for her ; forged by the traitorous Foreign
Secretary, to whom treason is a labour of affection.
" For ruany•days the whereabout of the ex-King of
the French has been kept a secret. He has been at
Dreux—at Eu—at TrArport,—at Herne Bay. Such have
been the conflicting rumours of a venal press. All, of
course, to put the world upon a wrong scent until the
iniquity, for some days hatching, shall receive portentous
birth.

" Now, sir, prepare to be astonished; for I am about
to inform you and the bamboozled world at large of the
real hiding-place of the late King of the French. Know,
then, that his ex-Mujesty is at this moment—and has
been for some days past—at No. 3, Curlton-house-ter-
race. Yes; in legal phrase, he is there • harboured and
comforted' by Viscount Palmerston, the Foreign Se-
cretary.
_ .

" I am the last man to suggest any intrusion upon the
privacy of fallen greatness; but—if you doubt the vera-
city of ray information—l have only to direct you to the
above address. Knock at the door, rush by the porter,
run up stairs; and on the third-pair back (turning to the
right, you will see a cut glass handle to the door) you
will find the royal fugitive. There he is, seated in
an arm-chair covered with Russia leather, which
(stuffed with Russian bank-paper) was a grateful
present of Nicholas, for work done, to the Foreign
Secretary. There is the ex-King, in that Russian
chair, with his feet upon a Turkey carpet, the bribe
of the Sultan ; there he is, with a Persian cat (the
souvenir of the Shah) bridling at his royal knee ;
with his royal but exiled elbow leaning on a Spanish
mahogany table, the gift of Christina for winking
at the Spanish marriage. There is the King, sir
(at the hour I write), with a cup of tea before him
—the tea the gift of the Emperor of China, in recom-
pense for a certain foreign treaty that sacrificed the in-
terests of the English merchant; the tea sweetened by
the sugar of Brazil, originally sent in a loaf, to purchase
destruction of the West Indies—milked from a Brahmin
cow, the gift of the East India Company—and stirred
by a spoon, a small item of the extensive service
of plate manufactured at the mine's mouth in
Peru, to buy the Foreign Secretary to the interests of
the republic. I might, sir, give many other particulars
touching the furniture of that back room—nay of
every moveable of No. 3—but I am the last man to be
personal.
" Well, sir, you will ask wherefore should Lord Pal-
merston—the Foreign Secretary of England—give an
asylum to the castaway Louis Philippe. Listen.
" The King of the French cannot leave off a crown.
After wearing one for nearly eighteen years, it is—he
declares—as needful to his health as flannel.

" The King of the French is desirous to purchase an-
other kingdom—to lay down so much ready money for
it—and, sir, (now prepare to shriek)—Lord Palmerston
proposes to sell him Ireland
"Yes! You clench your patriotic hand—you strike
it on your heart (I knew you would)—you gaze towards
the ceiling and—no, you are too much of a gentleman
—you don't swear.
" For these past three days, whilst even the Chronicle
—a public organ that Lord Palmerston has ceased to
grind—has preached of Louis Philippe's wanderings in
France, his Majesty has—l repeat it—been lodged at
No. 3, Carlton- house- terrace, bargaining for the purchase
of the first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea;'
and they are now—after much haggling on the King's
part—sold to him as though the flower was of no more
worth than a daisy, and the gem as common as Margate
shingle.
" 'lreland was Peel's difficulty'—said Palmerston to a
friend I could name—' but I have turned it into ready
cash. We are the first Ministry who ever made a penny
by it.'
" I have not yet made my mind up to publish the
precise sum paid by Louis Philippe for the throne of
Ireland; but I shall be quite prepared—when the time,
comes—to summon to the bar of the Commons the
identical clerk from Coutts's who cashed his Majesty's
cheque.
" I shall also be quite ready to call Mr. to the
bar, to prove that he received instructions to make out
the conveyance deeds. This much I will, however, ven-
ture to state without further hesitation.
" Of course, Ministers said nothing of the transaction.
It was their selfish policy to keep it secret until they
secured the income-tax.

"It is not yet settled when his Majesty will take pos-
session of Ireland, but I think I may venture to predict
that it will be on the very earliest day of April.
" The King—in order that certain passages of his
Paris life may be forgotten—proposes to cast aside his
present name as he would change dirty linen, and to
mount the throne (which in this case he has ordered of
cast iron, not to be consumed by fire) under the title of
O'Phillips the First.
"I can assure you that the King re-enters upon
Majesty with the greatest vigour, and in the highest
spirits. Mr. Shell, the Master of the Mint, has already
been to advise with him respecting the new coinage:
and already Mr. John Leech and Mr. Richard Doyle
have been solicited to supply designs for the five pat
piece and the O'Phillips-d'or. (A hand closing an um-
brella, for the obverse has been suggested, as significant
of the brevity of the royal reign.)
" Messrs. Storr and Mortimer have taken the King's
hat to measure for the new crown (of gilt silver): a light,
tasteful thing composed of shamrocks, and enriched with
polished fragments of the real Blarney Stone.
" Mr. Moses, from the Minories, has been honoured
with an order to make the royal robes of the very best
cotton velvet, to be trimmed with real fox. Mr. Moses
was as I am informed, kept in ignorance of the rank of
of his customer; Lord Palmerston in his wily way,
assuring the single-hearted tailor that the old gentle-
man was a bit of a character, and only wanted the robes
for the purpose of a masquerade.'
" And now, sir, having communicated to you a part
of the designs of Lord Palmerston, it is for you, as the
Patriot of Erin, to determine for the seven millions who
look all the way up to you; it is for you to say whether
you will take the Son of Gaul in exchange for the hated
Saxon. I will not tell you the name I have already heard
as determined upon by King O'Phillips as his prime
minister for life; but it begins with O'C.
" Again, it cannot be denied that King O'Phillips
comes with a ready made royal family. There is
Nemours, and D'Aumale, and Montpensier, each ready
to head an Irish invading army; whilst Admiral Join-
vile, in command of the armada of the Liffy, may pour
his thunder on either side of the Thames. This, it must
be confessed, will be revenge on the blood-thirsty Saxon
—revenge sweet and unctuous as butter-milk!
" That Ireland will benefit by the change—that the
country •which has been blighted by the rule of the
Saxon will run with oil and honey under the beneficent
auspices of the Gaul—is not to be doubted. Neverthe-
less, be assured that the corrupt and avaricious states-
man who has transacted the bargain—selling a whole
nation for a bank cheque—will, in the proper place,
namely, the House of Commons, at the bar of the coun-
try, be duly impeached by
" Your obedient servant,
CH-11—LM A-13 T-7.
_ _ _

" J. O'Connell Esq., M.P.
" P.S. It is a small matter, but I have just learned
that Louis Philippe binds himself and his heirs for ever,
to supply for the same time mountain dew and potatoes
to the cellar and the kitchen of a certain mansion in
Carlton- house-terrace."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS 3

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, New, 71,4 dis.—East Lanca-
shire, New, 63/4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late L. and
B.), 11% dis.— London and North-Western, 130 - Ditto,
New Quarters, 27 p —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, Preference, par—Midland, 100—Ditto, Halves, 5%
dis.--North Staffordshire, % dis. —South-Eastern and Dover,
N 0.4, 61s. 3d. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and
B.), No. 2, p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase),
donian, 29%.
MANCHESTER, Mancit 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—ThesaIes are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—East Anglian, Pre-
ference (6 per cent.), 3 7-16—Huddersfield and Manches-
ter Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1% dis.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fitt hs, 5,4 dis.—London and North- Western ( Man-
chester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 2% p.—Ditto,
ditto ( B), p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2%
dis.— slanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference
(10/. paid), par—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 7% die.
—North British, Thirds 1172 dis.—North Staffordshire, 15-16
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No 4, 2 15-16 dis.—White-
haven and Furness, 814 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
Extensions, No. 2, 14, p.
BIRMINGHAM, MA gnu 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Amhergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 2% dis. (for pre. acs)—North Stafford-
shire, 16s. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 535.
9d. dis.—Shropshire Union, 565. 3d. dis.—South Stafford-
shire, 565. 3d. dis. (for pre. ace.)
BRISTOL, Mauch 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The'sales are—Great Western, Quar-
ters, 1,4 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 11 p.—Midland Old, par—New-
castle and Berwick, 23/4 p.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAncir 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 100—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late N. and B.),
27%.

PORTSIEOUTII, MARcli 12.—The 52d Regiment
leave this garrison in three divisions on Monday, and
two following days, for Manchester. The 9th (East
Norfolk) Regiment will arrive here from Winchester on
the same days, to replace the 52d. The first battalion
of the 44th Regiment (the first corps for foreign service)
is to proceed to Malta_as soon as ships can be provided;
as the entire regiment is now at Cork, the battalion
ordered out will embark at that place; the other battalion
will go to the Mediterranean in the course of this year,
probably to Malta also. The Apollo troopship, Com-
mander Radcliffe, arrived at the Mauritius on the 17th
of December, all well. The 35th Regiment were to
embark on the Ist of January, and sail on the 3d for
England.

MARY' ANN Hu NT.—Amongst the prisoners who
had been tried and convicted at the late sessions of the
Central Criminal Court, and who have subsequently been
removed, was Mary Ann Ifunt, who, it will be recol-
lected, was tried at the last June sessions for the murder
of a❑ aged woman of the name of Stowell, in the Edge-
ware-road. The prisoner is to remain in Tothill-fields
prison for two years, for the purpose of attending to
and bringing up her child, but at the expiration of that
period the commuted sentence of transportation for life
will be carried into effect, when her child will be allowed
to accompany her.
A very rich vein of lead ore has just been dis-
covered within the manor of llartsop, in Patterdale.
The Earl of Lonsdalo is lord of thy inauor,—Cartisle
Journal,

FROM THE LONDON GAZETO
OF TUESDAY.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 11, 1848. ,rdi
The Queen has been pleased to order 17,‘
d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering t114":14
and Chapter of the cathedral church of Chester to:"
a Bishop of that see, the same being void by theigl
lation of the Most Reverend Father in God J0u',.„,./i
Sumner, late Bishop thereof, to the see of Canter u 7.
and her Majesty has also been pleased to recomulewt,
the said Dean and Chapter John Graham, D.°4-_,lc;ed
Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the ssla '
Chester.

WHITEHALL, Miami' 11. id
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieu tots
Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson, Royal Engineers'
one of the Commissioners of Railways, in the r(4l
Captain Henry Rowland Brandretb, ceased- •
W HITEHALL, MARCH 14. -At

- ,
The Queen has been pleased to nominate sno,iik
the Honourable Charles Edward Pepys to be yk
the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Leong
munds, I4:sq., resigned.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Maßcu 13. f
The Queen has been pleased to approe °vitt('
Thomas H. Hyatt. as Consul at Belfast for the
States of America.

DOWNING-STREET, MAncu 13. O.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint TM° por.
Winter, Esq., to be Assistant Receiver. General 0,1
bier, in the colony of British Guiana.
_ _ _ _

CMSWN-OFFICE, MARCH 13. d
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIN PASO'
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Lancaster Robert Baynes ArtnitreLbisil
Chester-place, Westminster, Esq., in the room of °".";,A
Gregson, Esq., whose election has been declared Yu"'
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of DurbOii,
John Eden, L.q., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Mill
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrel,l'
Captain Peter Page, U.N., to be Deputy Limiter
March 7. elr
Commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Caiwn
shire.plenty.
The Right Hon. Jamet Lord Berridale to be ty
Lieutenant; David Henderson, Esq. to be netigr
Lieutenant ; John Sinclair, Esq. jun., to be Decti,
Lieutenant; James Horne, Esq. jun., to be INP"
Lieutenant, March 3.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 1. amps.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fish °Litt
field, of Accrington, in the county palatine of Lance
hori
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the Sigh v"
of Chancery.

BANKRUPTS.
George Armfield, jun., and Robert Wright Birteroi
coach builders, Croydon, to surrender March 24,
April 28, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankroroj,
W hitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
Charles Minors Collett, baker, Mill-street, Law 0
March 24, at half-past twelve, and April 28, el oat's,
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official aisle
Basinghall- street; Low, Chancery-lane. 4 o
Joseph Hosken, builder, Southampton, March
twelve, and April 28, at eleven, at the Court of oil,
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Gr
Walbrook, London.
James Baker, tailor, George-street, Hanover-set;
March 22, at two, and April 28, at twelve, at the Hanover-sea
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Gadsden
Flower, Furnival's Inn, Holborn.
Francis Clementson, earthenware manufacturer,
ton, Staffordshire, March 22, and April 20, at electd
at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, offi
assignee, Birmingham ; Stevenson, Hanley. 1101
Edward Thompson, hosier, Kingston-upon:
_Ai
March 29, and April 19, at half-past ten, at the 1115
District Court Hope, official assignee, Leeds;
and Co., Coleman-street, London; Wells and s°l
Hull.
Christopher Morgan, tea dealer, Leeds, March 3001.
April 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Co,! A,
Young, official assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co.. o'
ford-row, London; Naylor, Leeds.
John Porter, cheese factor, Wormwood-street, Cit
March 23, at one, and April 22, at twelve, at the Con„,
of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook
court, Basinghall-street; Wilde and Co., College-bill' a
William Inwards, straw plait merchant, Luton D'i
fordshire, March 28, at half past two, and April 12!!
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, eMPI
assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrence 119
Plews, Old Jewry Chambers.
W illiam Benjamin Jones, hatter, Liverpool, March°
and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Coe
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Smith and 4.1'
Bedford row, London ; Greatley, Liverpool.
John Smith, roller maker, Little Bolton, Lanat11111114;;
April 3 and 17, at twelve, at the Manchester Dist:le
Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Atkinaoll.
Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Abbott, Lir
coin's Inn-fields, London.
John Hope, grocer, Tunbridge wells, March 23,
eleven, and May 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court 01
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall'
chambers; Becke, Bedford row.
John Mullett, tailor, Shaftesbury, Dorset, March $(1,
at one, and April 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bank.
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-sheet;
Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard.
Robert Pye, butcher, Weston- under-Penyard, He".
fordshire, March 25, at twelve, and April 18, at ele/0.,11'
at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official
assignee, Birmingham; Hall and Minett, Ross; Rae*
Birmingham.
Richard Taylor, soap manufacturer, Liverpool, March
31 and April 18, at elevin, at the Liverpool District
Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool Keightlei
and Co., Chancery-lane, London; Holden, Liverpool.
Edward Gooche Hone, liceased victualler, Liverpool:
March 28 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool i
Johnson and Co., Temple, London ; Dewhurst, Liver.
pool.
John Sinclair, tailor, Liverpool, March 31 and AO
18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.. Built
official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford*
row; Payne, Liverpool.
John Neaves, plumber, Coles-terrace, Islington, Mara,
23, at half past one, and May 6, at one, at the Court et
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alciermanbury;
Conquest, Moorgate-street.
John Parker, brewer, Oxford, March 28, at twelve.
and April 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy:
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Nicholson nall
Parker, Lime-street, City.
William Penny, brewer, Newport, Monmouthshire.
March 30, at eleven, and May 2, at one, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristoli
Phippen and Craven, Bristol.
Weetman Dickinson, miller, Clayton West, Yorkshire.
March 27, and April 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Bristol; Bower, Token-
house-yard, London; Sykes, Wakefield.
John Hartley, machine maker, Bury, Lancashire.
March 30, and April 15, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court. Hobion, official assignee, Manchester;
Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; Blare
Manchester.

Frederick Francis, ironmonger, Folkatone, March 20,
at two, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court, Basinghall,
street. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall•chamberei
Young, Warwick-square.
Jacob Ordoyno, broom maker, Swan•place, Old /Cent-
road, March 22, at two, and April 27, at twelve, at the
Court, Basinghall-street. Johnson, official assignee.
Basinghall-street; Scargill, Hatton•court, Threadneedle•
street.

William Fuller, carman, Horton Old-town, March 25,
at two, and April 38, at half-past eleven, at the Courts
Basinghall- street. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lanof
Baddeleys, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields.
William Dyne, corn dealer, High-street, Stoke New'
ington,March 23, at twelve, and April 28, at one, at the
Court, Basinghall-street. Stansfeld, official assignee:
Thrupp, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester-street.
Benjamin Barber, dealer in lace, Nottingham, March
24 and April 2s, at eleven, at the Nottingham District
Court. Bitcleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Juno,
Siam-lane, London; Brewster, Nottingham.
Jonathan Beckett, ironmonger, Liverpool, March 24
and April 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Hall and Co., Verw
lam-buildings, London; Neal, Liverpool.
Thomas Tattersall, corn merchant, Liverpool, March
27 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory and
Co., Bedford-row, London; Frodsharn, Liverpool.
(Dividends. &c.. in' our next.)

Lieutenant-General Viscount llardinge, the late
Governor-General of India, arrived at Blackwall Pier
this morning, by the General Steam Navigation Com•
pang's steam ship, Sir Edward Banks, from Ostend.
ARRIVAL or BULLION.—The vessel Ganges, ar-
rived in the Docks from Sydney, has brought, as a por-
tion of her general cargo, two cases of bullion, con-
signed to order.

A letter from Frankfort, of the 9th of March, in
the Cologne Gazette, asserts from the best sources, that
in its last two sittings. the Germanic Diet has been
occupied with the question of a Germanic Federal
Parliament, sitting at Frankfurt. An important decision
in that respect was to be published shortly in the Frank-
fort papers.

BIRTHS.
On the sth inst., at Tawatock•court, Devon, the lady of
Edward Weld, Est, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., at Castle-street, Falcon-square, the wife
of Mr. James Moore, of a son.
On the 9th inst.,,at St. Bartholomew's Mospital, Mrs. J.
Paget, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Bishop's Teigntoa, Devoe, Mrs. Charles
Simeon, of a eon.
On the 10th inst., at Grimsthorpe, the wife of the Rev. 1.
D. Giles, of a son.

On th© 11th inst., in Mornington-ertscent, Mrs. T. L.
Atkinson, of a son.

,11414.tti AD.

On the 14th inst., at St. Georse's-------- Hanover •squara.
C. Rose, Esq., surgeon, Mile-end, to Marv, second daughter
of the late Captain B. Bell, of the Hon. Hudson's Zsy Com.
pany's Service.

DIED.

On the 11th inst., at Prittlewell, Essex, Frances Russet,
relict of the Rey. C. Wallington, late Rector of llawkee-
well, aged 100.

On
the 11th inst., in King-street, Portman-square, Cap-
tain George Dardis.
On the 13th inst., the Rev. Henry Claydon, M.A., of Calla
College, Cambridge.
On the 11th inst., in Tork-place, Brighton, Mr. E. Mar-
slic.ll, aged 71.
On the 13th inst., at Leamington, the infant son of 11. M.
Campbell, Esq.
On the 13th inst., ha Church-row, Hampstead, Mr. John
Povah, aged 66.

London : Printed and Published by I4URDO YOUNG-, *E
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun (Mee, No. 112.
Strand, in the Precinct of tke Savvy, is the county of
ilaiddlesex, Wednesday, March 15, le4l.