The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THTTRWDAY EVENING. MARCT-112, 1846.

Lord JOHN MANNERS expressed his admiration of the
Jesuits and their principles, and thought that the House
would do better to imitate their example than to asperse
their characters.
Mr. ESTCOURT opposed the Bill, which was supported by
Mr. P. BoirrnwicK and Mr. M. MILNES.
Colonel SIBTHORPE considered the measure would under-
mine the Protestant religion, and would give it his strenu-
ous opposition.
After a few words from Captain HARRIS, Lord J. Russatt,
and Mr. P. HOWARD, and a reply from Mr. Escorr, the
House divided ; when there appeared—For the second read-
: ing, 66—Against it, 23—Majority in favour of the Bill, 43.
The Out-Pensioners Payment Bill was read a second time.
In Committee of Supply 8,000,000/. was voted for the pub-
lic service.
The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for
limiting the hours of night labour in lace factories.
Sir J. GRAIIA3I objected to interference with the hums of
labour. He would not, however, oppose the motion, but
wait to see the Bill before he gave an opinion on it.
Mr. FORSTER objected to the Bill.
Colonel Ror.wros supported it, as did Mr. HF.ATIICOTE,
who found it beneficial in his own factories to reduce the
hours of labour.

After a few words from Mr. FIELDEN, leave was given to
bring in the Bill.
Certain returns were then ordered to be made, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Five.

There is no part of our criminal code which so loudly
demands a revision and reform as that relating to
duelling. The law is perfectly clear and well-defined.
Every person concerned in a duel in which there has
been a life lost, not only as principal or second, but even
as a mere looker-on (if he be there as an aider and
abettor), is guilty of murder, and subject to the highest
penalty known to our law. The proof is simple and
easy, and yet, numerous as have been the victims who have
fallen, there can scarcely be pointed out a single in-
stance of a conviction, certainly not a single one, in
which there had not been something unfair in the ma-
nagement of the duel, or in which the survivor had not
been grossly wrong in the matter which led thereto.
Some few years since it required the strongest moral
courage to refuse to fight if challenged, or to omit send-
ing a challenge if an insult had been given. The man
who did so offended against the law of society and re-
ceived a punishment more severe than almost any the
law could inflict. It was useless for him to allege that
the head and front of his offending was, that he had
refused to violate the laws both of GOD and man—no

matter whether wife and children were wholly dependent
on bins—that he was an upright and amiable man, dis-
charging efficiently all the duties of life as husband,
parent, or friend, he had refused to render satisfaction, as
it was termed, when demanded of him, and he was shunned
and deserted, if not by all, at least by the great majority.
Who could put forward the plea that he had already given
sufficient proof to displace any imputation on his personal
courage when even the Iron Duke—the hero of a hundred
fights—was not satisfied to rest on his well-established
character, but thought it necessary to demand such a
satisfaction for what he conceived to be an im-
putation on his honour, and when a veteran
of the highest reputation, the present Governor-
General of India, consented to act as his second en the
occasion? It is quite unnecessary here to repeat the
names of the highest and best in our land, who have
themselves been involved in similar transactions, and
who certainly suffered no loss of character thereby.
One instance within the last few years will be sufficient
to testify that the leaders of our Government, and the
majority of th' Members of the House of Commons,
considered that the practice was still justifiable. We
allude to the debate on the occasion of the Master of
the Rolls, the then Attorny -General, of Ireland, having
sent a hostile message in court, during the progress of
the O'CONNELL trials, to Mr. FIZTCIIIIION, a Queen's
Counsel, retained on behalf of the traversers, fur obser-
vations made by him in the discharge of his professional
duty. Latterly, however, we are happy to say a heal-
thier state of feeling has arisen on the subject. The man
who refuses to commit such a crime is no longer looked
on as a person who may be insulted with impunity, and
who must be scouted out of society for so doing. On
the contrary, if his conduct in the entire transaction
will bsar the strictest investigation—if he has not
willfully or wantonly inflicted an injury or insult on his
opponent—his character will stand higher than ever for
his refusal ; and there is a strong feeling of the neces-
sity of a stop being put to the practice in every passible
way. How, then, can this be done ? Is it by prosecut-
ing with the utmost rigour of the law the parties in-
volved in every fatal case, and punishing them when
csnvieted ? This will not be sufficient. All cur expe-
rience shows that the certainty of a minor punishment
is much more effectual for the repressing of crime of
any kind than the possibility of the most severe, when
every sympathy would be enlisted on behalf of the pri-
soner, and every anxiety felt by the jury and audience
for an acquittal, because the punishment would be so far
beyond what the crime demanded.

We are led to these observations in consequence of
the recent trial, at Winchester, of Mr. PIM ; and we
confess that we did not feel surprised at his acquittal,
contrary as it was to the charge of the Learned Judge
who tried the care, or :at the burst of applause and

manifest satisfaction with which, that verdict was re-

ceived by the crowded assembly who witnessed the trial,
The simple questions for the jury to decide on, as stated
by the Judge, were—Did a duel take place ?—was Mr.
SxroN wounded in that duel ?—and was Mr. PYM a
second in that duel ? It was a matter of public noto-
riety that Mr. SETON received his death-wound in such
a duel, and that Mr. Pint was a second therein ; and the
evidence was abundantly sufficient to warrant any rea-
sonable man or body of men in finding that such were
the facts. Indeed, we cannot conceive that any body
of men could hesitate in coming to such a conclusion ;
but the jury adopted the argument of the learned and
able counsel for the prisoner, who argued not that such
was not the law, but against its policy, and that juries
might stand between the law and the accused, and
refuse to convict him of such a crime as wilful murder,
in fact, that they were not bound to take the law from
the judge, but might themselves become the arbiters
both of law and fact. And if ever there was a case to
excite the warmest sympathies of a jury, and to induce
them to strain every point in order to prevent the
fearful consequences of a conviction, it was that one.
A young man, under twenty years of age, bearing the
highest character as a mild, inoffensive gentleman, very
unlikely to promote a quarrel, had consented to act for
a friend and brother efficer, on whom an injury of the
most serious character had been attempted;—the virtue
of his wife had been assailed. A large pecuniary
recompense had been offered as the price of her honour
and that of her husband. Although repulsed, the
assailant refuses to desist from his persecutions, but

continues his odious attentions; and when at length the
lit:shut:l wrings from his wife the facts, and maddened
by the continued and public attentions of the would•be
seducer, finds it necessary to tell him that he is ac-
quainted with ever) thing, and applies to him epithets
which no husband of a young and virtuous woman could
consider as sufficiently strong, under the circumstances.
The answer givcn is (if possible) an aggravation of the
original offence, an addition of insult to the attempted
injury, " that it was impossible for a light cavalry man
to :met an infantry man;" forsooth, that an officer and

a gentleman, bearing a commission in an honourable and
gallant corps, was to be injured and insulted with im-
punity, because the insulter chose to arrogate some
fancied superiority for the branch of the service in which

he himself held his commission. Who could refuse to
come forward in such a cause?—net an ardent and high-
spirited youth, who felt his friend, and the body to which he
be lon;ed, had been grievously and wantonly insulted. He
was no practised and veteran duellist, ready to foment quar-
rels, and bring to a mortal arbitrament a trifling dispute,
which the slightest degree of discretion on the part of
the second 3 might have arranged, and brought to an
amicable conclusion. On the contrary, it appeared that
he did not even know how to load the pistol he was
about to place in the hand of his friend. We cannot,
therefore, regret the result of the trial, although we fear
it will tend to perpetuate the practice, and form a pre-
cedent for other juries to exonerate and discharge persona
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Let the Legislature, if it seriously desirs to put a stop to
the offence, declare duelling to be a serious offence ; let
it affix a severe penalty of tine and imprisonment (per-
haps with hard labour) to be inflicted in every case, no
matter what may be the result ; and when one or two
Prosecutions have taken place, when score gentlemen of
nice honour—quick to take offence, and anxious to make
themselves
.notorious as principles or seconds have
exercised themselves for one cr two years in some of
our ho :sea of correction ; and when it is known that
every similar offence is cc •r lain of receiving a similar
punishment, we venture to prophecy that duelling will
no longer be a fashionable amusement, but that its prac-
tice will have received a heavier blow and a greater
discouragement than if a conviction had taken place,
and h public feeling had been outraged by human
life being again taken away by a legal murder. Lord
4 e ksea.t, has earned for himself a proud title as the
vl acknowledged abuses in our laws ; let him

turn his attention to this subject, and we fearlessly say
that he can add no brighter laurel to the wreaths which
he has won and hereafter may win during his useful
career, or one which will confer a greater knefit on his
country*.

Scarcely ever have we entertained sentiments of such
peculiar satisfaction at the general bearing of the Lower
House in the discussion of a religious question, as those
with which we yesterday observed the manner in which the
second reading of the "Roman Catholic Relief Bill" was
received by the majority of the Members. And it is more
peculiarly a source of gratification to ourselves from the
circumstance of its forming an additional evidence of the
liberality of feeling with which the Ministry are now in-
spired. It is creditable likewise to this age Gf enlighten-
ment and freedom of opinion that a Bill of this nature should
be introduced to the supervision of Government. Every one
with but a fractional portion of common sense recoils from
any further perpetuation cf those miserable and atrocious
penal enactments which are, in fact, the leprous blotches of the
statute-book—enactments by which a body of Christians, and
a very gigantic body be it remembered, is debarred
from an exercise of the reasoning faculties, or of conscience
itself, under penalties of so violent a description as to excite
the repugnance of all well-constituted minds. That these
opinions are not restricted to any petty band of innovators,
but are those entertained by almost every division cf the
community, is fully demonstrated, even if we regard that
effluence of the multitude (the House of Representatives) as
the criterion. Laws so villanously stringent upon the minds
as well as upon the bodies of our fellow-creatures—laws so con-
trary to the more essential elements of our constitution itself
—laws at once so cowardly and so infamously despotic as
these constitute an anomaly but little creditable to a genera-
tion of science or a nation of freemen. And to maintain for
a single instant that such enactments are necessary as pre-
servatives to the established religion of this country would
be a tacit acknowledgment of the rottenness and mundane
insecurity of that creed. It would be an inference most per-
nicious to the Protestant Church. All these considerations
have, within this session, operated upon the different depart •
ments of the Legislature, and in consequence the lovers of
freedom and of charity (in which class we would enume-
rate all right-minded Englishmen) are rejoiced to
see a Bill introduced for the abolition of these
statutes by the Lunn CHANCELLOR himself, simultaneously
with one of a like nature now passing through the House of
Commons. The fearless, candid, and dispassionate manner
in which the latter was yesterday introduced for a second
reading by Mr. Escorr was a gratifying testimony that a
really competent party bad been selected for that office
But a rather miserable contrast was given to
the Hon. Member's address by the subsequent
speech of Sir ROBERT HARRY Isicus a speech
which reflects as little credit upon his taste as upon his judg-
ment—a speech more adapted to the congregations of Exeter
Hall than to the audience of St. Stephen's—a speech as
wretched in its tact as it was virulent in its sentiments. Lord
MOT:MTH, whose remarks were brimming over with noble
truths—truths eminently worthy of his utterance—could
scarcely have insinuated the bigotry by which all antagonists to
this Bill were goaded on with more consummate delicacy or
more painful sarcasm. His allusions to the Hon. Member for
Oxford were thoroughly merited and conveyed that gentle-
manly, but :emphatic reprobation of his conduct with which

he should be unceasingly visited until the close of his semi-
clerical crusade. It is indeed a matter of astonishment, of
indignation, of deep and unaffected regret on cur part, that
the University of Oxford—so renowned fur its erudition, for
its correspondence with the advancement of society, and fur
its aggregation of natural and cultivated talent—should suc-
cumb to the MAWWORM class of ethics, and, Parliament after
Parliament, set forth as an exponent of its religious and
political views one so impervious to the voice of liberal and
charitable concession. To Sir ROBERT Nails the "live
and let live" of theology is a non-existence; he declaims
against the code of Jesuitism as over-rigid, and
establishes in his own mind a moral inquisition, most stern
and uncompromising, to all of a different belief. Filled,
however, as we are with regret at this mal-appropriation of
human reason, it is matter of earnest congratulation to our-
selves, that saving the casual toadyism of Colonel
SIBTIIORP, or his scanty compeers, the diatribes of
Sir R. 11. INGLIS are virtually and actually innocuous.
Yesterday's division was proof positive that our legislators
are animated by a true and practical devotion to the prin-
ciples most accordant to our political state, as well as most
accordant to the creed established by the GOD OF THE
CHRISTIANS. Before very long we shall have the
grateful consciousness that in England the most
divine attribute of our common nature—FAlTH—is no
longer trameiled by human edicts; that each man may
worship his CREATOR in the manner most reasonable to him-
self without let or hindrance, but, above all, without a single
glimmer of scorn or obloquy.

The motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, the Member for Coventry,
relative to the want of education in Wales, is one of the very
first importance, and to that gentleman we are indebted for a
mass of useful information, supported by some very sagacious
and benevolent hints as to the manner in which a great national
evil may be eradicated. The facts upon which that Hon.
Member founded his present interposition on the part of his
fellow-countrymen are heart-touching in the extreme, and
are deserving of the most earnest consideration. According
to an estimate formed by the President of a Dissenting College
in Wales, it appears that 250,000 children require instruction
in that country. Of these merely 70,000 are supplied with the
necessary education, and a very considerable portion of that
70,000 arc abandoned to schoolmasters cf such indifferent
capacity, that the education is actually little more than
nominal. A calculation more startling than this could
scarcely be made in any ether civilised country ; it proves
more, than a social malady, it proves a legislative over-
sight. What moral excellence, what political sobriety, what
subordination, what improvements, can possibly be ex-
pected from a population, when 180,000 children are per-
mitted to grow up in an ignorance as leaden, as unhoping,
and as dismal in its density, as creatures with the faculties
of man are capable of doing? What hopes can be enter-
tained of a people with excellent wages, who have no
other alternative to while away their leisure hours
but the vapours of the tap-room ; no other solace
in their lack
.of occupation but alcohol ; no other notion of
supreme enjoyment but a gossip round the hearthstone of a
public-house ? What tranquillity can be looked for among a
race without the power to balance with accuracy the problem
of right and wrong? None. No, cot one. It would be the
muskiest iesanity ; it ado uld.l%:xpecting a fruitful harvest
where no single grain is sown, and where the wholesome
moisture of the earth is expelled by an unnatural drough'.
An enumeration of all those baneful consequences which
must necessitate from such a condition of mind among a
body of men like our Welsh countrymen ie icracely possible
—they are almost numberless. But that political and social
grievances must result from the mere circumstance alone of
their not knowing the language in which the laws that rule
them are expressed, must be evident to any rational indi-
vidual. Their isolation by this fact also precludes them
from all capacity to rise above the original level of their
condition : they are shut out from the most humanizing
influences : they are prevented from becoming more deter-
minately prosperous either materially or intellectually. So
manifest were all these deductions, so impossible to gainsay,
so incapable were they of being rlurred over, thrt the Home
Secretary acknowledged the urgency of the case, and merely
requested Mr. Wremams to withdraw his motion on the
following engagement :—" lie (Sir JAMES Guarraas) pro-
posed that the Educational Committee of the Privy Council
should send down into \Vales two of its inspectors to inquire
into the extent of the ignorance of the English language
among the population of Wale?, and into the best means of
removing it. He thought that the necessary information
might be speedily obtained, and that the intervention of
Parliament might be procured, perhaps, during the present
session."

We shall look vigilantry for the report of these two pro-
posed inspectors, and we shall look hopefully for that same
intervention of Parliament, sustained by the aspiration that
houses of correction may give place to parish seminaries,
and tuition ultimately supersede the treadmill.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 4th instant. The
Gazette of that date publishes a return of the receipts and
expenditure for the year 1845, shossing a balance in favour
of the Government, to the amount of 65,156,372 reals,
(651,5630; the total expenditure being 1,225,405,957 reels,
(12,254,9590; and the receipts 1,290,652,329 reels,
(12,906,5230. It was said that the Government had. re-
fused to accept the resignation of Don lIENztaQuE, as they
wish to keep him at a distance from the capital. The
Herald() says, the negotiations at Rome had taken a more
favourable turn, and bulls from the Porn had been re-
ceived in Madrid., approving of the bishops lately ap-
pointed, in which his HOLINESS expressly and solemnly
acknowledges ISABELLA 11., as Queen of Spain.
The Funds have again fallen. On the 4th the Three per
Cents. closed at 28% for cash, and at 30 days; and the
Five per Cents. at 21/8 for the 30th of April.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, the motion of
DE Sr. PRIEST, relative to the reiuction of the Five per Cent.
Stock has been carried by a majority of 56—the numbers
being fur authorising the consideration of the subject, 201,
and against it, 145. The Minister of Finance strongly
opposed the adoption of such a course as inopportune and
veu dangerous under present circumstances. In the course
the discussion M. GAIINIT.P. PAG.rs inveighed strongly
against the Government for its want of courage in this in-
stance, insisted on the necesAty of effecting the conversion
at the present time, and addld that a strong reason against
it was one universally known, though no person liked to
mention it,—namely, the "sysMnze, the " pense du r?gne"—
' in ether words the KING. He was loudly called to
order by the Centre, and he dropped the topic.
There is no chance, however, of the measure
'being carried this session, for the House of Peers are also
opposed to it, and will not yield but to what M. GARNIEIt
PAGES calls an " imperious reason." The late insurrection
in Poland, for we believe all hopes of success are now
abandoned, continues to form the principal topic in the
papers, as well as in private societies. All lament the fall of
the Poles, and regret that a rising should have taken place,
when, neither the Poles themselves nor the rest of Europe
were prepared for it.. The Government, as a matter of course,
have taken every precaution against any public displays
Which may give offence to the three Powers. A grand

manifestation was expected at the Opera, on Monday night,
and the police, in consequence, assembled there in great
force, to repress anything of the kind. The following ac-
count of the affair appears in the AVat:ona/:
" The pit of the Opera presented a most
extraordinary aspect, from its containing 150 if not 200 police
agents, filling one-half of the seats. The Government, having
received information that it was intended to call for the
performance of the Marseillaise or the Cracoaienne, had given
instructions to the Prefect of Police to take every possible
means for preventing this manifestation of opinion. After
the first act of Lucie was over, a portion of the audience cried
out for the Marseillaise, but the agents drowned the cry
by shouting La Piece! La Piece! and the orchestra com
menced the introduction of the second act. At this time a
detachment. of Sergens de rilla collected near the entrance,
and a squadron of Municipal Guards took up their station in
the court-yard next the Rue Grange Bateliere. After the
second act was over, the cries fur the 211arseillaise were le-
newed, and received with the same opposition as before
by the police agents. Upon this a patty of Sergens de
Ville entered the pit, and took out three of the most voci-
ferous of the young men, and conducted them to the Corps
de Garde in the vestibule.' On Tuesday a meeting of
Deputies, belonging chiefly to the Left and the Left Centre,
and amounting to about eighty, was held in one of the
committee-rooms, to consider what steps might be best
under present circumstances, to assist the unfortunate Poles.
M. DUPONT DE L'Eurts was called to the chair, when M.
GARNIER PAGES proposed that the assembly should con-
titute itself into a permanent committee to watch over the

interests of Poland. M. Ontnox BARROT, however, and
many other members objected to the proposition, and
thought that, in the present position of the Poles,
when it was not likely that they could consolidate their
forces, and effectually resist the three great Powers, it would
be better to wait events, and that in the meantime the meet-
ing should merely appoint a committee, charged with drawing
up an appeal to the people, and calling upon them to sub-
scribe in favour of the insurgents. Such a course would be
more consistent with the dignity of the French Chamber of
Deputies than to give formal expression to wishes and feel-
ings, which had little chance at the present moment cf being
accomplished. This plan, therefore, was adopted, and a
committee was appointed, merely to collect subscriptions.
The committee consists of M. DUPONT DE L'EuRE, chairman,
MM. ARAGO, LAMARTINE, ODILON BAT:ROT, REMILLY,
nEvthnn, LAFAYETTE, and DE LARCY. The Prussian and
Austrian Ministers at Paris received on Tuesday accounts
that the insurrection virtually was at an end. According to
the .217afional, the subjoined petition, copies of which are to
be sent for signature to all parts of France, was to be pre-
sented to the Chamb2r of Deputies:—

" Gentlemen,—For fifteen years past, and in every year, you have
opened all your sessions by expressing a wish for the resurrection of
Poland as a nation, and on all occasions all France his joined in that
wish. Poland Is now rising against her oppressors ; she is display-
ing the utmost energy in order to break her fetters and re-conquer
her independence and liberty. We come to claim of you, as a sanc-
tion of your own votes, a solemn declaration of sympathy for her
generous efforts. The Poles are tho French of the North; their
blood has been shed for France In all our battles ; let her, then, cover
them with her exalted- protection. It is the act of Justice and
humanity we expect from you."
The French Funds, from various causes, still continue to fall. On
Tuesday the Three per Calks. closed at 83f. 70c. ; the Five per
Ceuts., 1191. 25c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2 Of.; Rouen,
1,070 f. ; Havre, 745 E; Great Northern, 775 f. ; Avignon, 075 f.; Vier-
von, 745 f.; Bordeaux, 6,121. 50e. ; Boulogne, 520 f. • Troyes and Mon.
terean, 440 f. ; 240 L ; Fampoux, 460 f.; Dieppe, 475 f.; Paris
and Strasburg, s.tof. ; Tours and Nantes, 672 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, definitive, 625 f.

The following art the quotations for other lines :

Lyons and Avignon Railroad (TAlabot) f, 12f. ; ditto (Lecointe),
; ditto (Compagnie Meildienale), 503 f. ; Bordeaux and Cctte
(Mackenzie), 503 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 509 f.; Charleroi, 490 f.
MARSEILLES, Mallen 7. Marseilles and Avignon, 500 f. ;
Northern, 785 f.
BESINESS -DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 3laucrt 11.
_ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 10%—Bordeaux, Thaleuse, and Cotta
(Eepeleta), 2!4..Dutch Rhenish, Sag—East Ir.dian, 1/, —Great North-
ern of France Constituted, 15%—Great Indian Peninsular, 13
Great Western Canada, 3lB—Louvain and Jelnappe, Ix—Lyons and
Avignon, 2 Lnxenibourg, 13 —Namur and Liege, 234—Orleans
and Vlerson, 19 —Over Yssel, 2% dis.—Sarabre and Meuse, 4%
Wes t Flanders, 334 .

HOUSE OF LORDS.----(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to day to bear Scotch appeals. The Peers
in attendance were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and
Lord Campbell.
TIIE MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE v. SINCLAIR.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal occupied
their Lordships the whole morning.

went to the door cf the house and called a policeman, who
took tha prisoner in charge.
Mary Connell, a young woman who lived in the same
house with the complainant, said that she was in the kitchen

last evening, when the prisoner 'came to look for a razor,
saying he wanted it to " kill that - old rogue, his father."
He took a razor from a drawer in the dresser, andwas leasing
the kitchen, when she interrupted him, and with some.diffi-
culty took the razor from him.

Tile prisoner expressed great regret for ills conduct, an d
said that if he were discharged he would keep away from
home.

The complainant said be would be satisfiel with the pri-
sonet's wword•that he would keep awn y.
Mr. HALL did not think he would be justified in setting
the prisoner at liberty upon his own promise. He must make
him enter into recognisances for 40/., and find two sureties in
20!. eaeb, to keep the peace for four months.

MONEY and "COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Liverpool Cotton market yesterday was steady.
Sales 5,00 J bags. there was rather an improved feeling in
the Share market, and an increased busine3s was dote-
Advices received from Vienna state, that the Austrian
Government - contemplated the ahclitieri of their • Customs
lines, separating Hungary from the other provinces of the
empire.
The only ship arrival to-day is from Valparaiso, and we
do not find that there is any news of general interest from
that quarter.
A good deal of cut iosity is manifested to learn how the dis-
pute between Menses. Lizartli, the late agents of the Mexi-
can Government, and the Bondholders, represented by their
Committee, will be likely to terminate. So far as justice is
concerned, there are few disinterested persons who doubt the
right of the bendlielders to the amount withheld, but there
may be legal difficulties interposed as in other cases.
Hitherto the Committee have received, we believe, every
encouragement, as regares counsel's opinion, to
proceed with their suit, which was expected on
yesterday, and we hope at all events will come
before the Court this week. The bondholders are naturally
impatient to have the matter settled one way or the other;
and, if in their favour, to receive the instalment so long due,
and which, with the amount already in the hands of Messrs.
Schneider, might make up a sum worth having.
The English Stock Market presents quite a blank appear-
ance. owing to the closing of the Transfer books for so many
securities. Consols are almost the only stock dealt in, and
these have been 95% 3/4 for present Transfer, and 95% to S 6
for time, or scarcely so good as they were yesterday
The premium on Exch quer-bills keeps at 345. to 375. Bank
Stock has been at 211 for the Account.
The Foreign Bonds ere equally dull. Spanish Five per
Cents. realise 25% %, and the Three per Cents.. 35% SA,
both being equally. flat. Mexican Stock has been, marked
3114, for the Actives, and 1614 for the Deferred. Dutch
Four per Cents. have been 94%.
Shares have been quiet at about previous rates.
'BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .• 93%N sy 95%
South Sea Stock •
Ditto, New Annuities 95% 953
Bank Stock for Account .. 211 211
Consols for Account .. 96 95% 96 557,,4
Exchequer Bins. 1)4c1. INd.
1,000/. 34 37 -- pm. 37
500/. • .... 34 37 pm. 37
Ditto, Small .... 34 37 pm. 37

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. .. .. 99
Grenada, 1 par Cent .. .. .. .. 21%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. .. —4%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 3114 31%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. 1634 163,,1
Portmtuese Four per Cents .. .. .
56
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 25%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 25% % 25%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. • • .. —5%
•
Ditty., Three per Cent .. • • ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 35% % 3534
Venezuela ilonds, 2 yet* Cent .. .. 43%
Dividends on the above payal.le in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 94%
BUSINESS
.PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.
PAID. DOE AT PRICES.
• ONE O'CLOCK.
Amber., Nottinz., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2%.... 1%.......... I%
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. .. .. .. ..
Ditto New (issnd at 7% die.) .. 17% ... 30% 31 ...... 31
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham. 225. .... .......... 14 die.
Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 70 ... .. 83

Ditto, New .. 5 .... 10 ..... 10
Buckinghamshire 425. .... dis

Caledonia❑

.. .. .. .. 10

1041%•••

Ditto, Half Shares 2V> .... 24 . .
Camhridge and Oxford.. .. .... %.••• • • .. 14
Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 19% .. • ..... 19%
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 1,4 .... 3% • • 3%
Direct Northern .. .. .... 2 ..... 2
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine .. —•-••• • • • • • Is

Eastern Counties 141. I%s.•z
21% .• - 21%
Ditto New 8/. !Gs. .... M p G p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. Gt. 13s. 4d. .. • • • • • 34 P
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. Cl. 13s. 4d. 'A p• • • • 54 P
Ditto, York Extension ~ .. 10s. .... 1m % .
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... •• • •

Ditto !..6 Shares .. 5 .... 14 ••••• • • • .. 14'4
Essex and Suffolk .. 1%. . . . ..
Goole, D.neast., and Aieffleld, &e. 423. %% p• • • • .. % p
Grand Union (Soft:ugh. & Lynn) 1%.... 1 'sYg .......
Great Eastern and Western .. 254....%34 .. 34
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... •
Ditto, Extension .. 15 .... .... 17
Great Western .. 85 ....147 ..... 147
Lancaster and Carlisle 35 .. •..• . •

Ditto New .. .. 5 .... ..
Leicester and 8edf0rd.......... 22.. %% dis d:s
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. ...... 42a. .
Liverpool and Lads Direct .. 234....
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 234 .... 3 3
London and Birmingham ... .100 ....219 220 220
Ditto Thirds .. ".. 16 .... 50%
Ditto Quarters .. .. 2 .... 2634
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 834

Ditto New .. 21 .... 4 4
London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 631.414 6314
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 21% ...... •• .. 21%
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .. 9 .......... 9
London, Hounslow, & Western ~ 2 .... 1 ..........
tendon and South-Western.. 41/. Gs. 10d. 76 ...... •• • • 76

London and York .. 2% .... 3►4 3l/4
London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 2% .... 13,4• • l%
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 7% .... 5% . 5%
Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 934 .• • • 9
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ....
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 12 .. l2
Ditto Extension 425..... 43% 4 p 314 r
Aranchester and Birmingham .. 40 „

Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • . 2 ~ „
.....
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 21/4... ..... 2%
Elidiand ..100 .. • • 143 ...... • ... 144

Ditto, New .. .. • • • • 18 •• • . 30% 31 ..... 304,
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .. —11394
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 95 .... 43% .. 434
Ditto, New 1 .... ........

Ditto, New, Brandling 20 •• .. 36 ....
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 1914 19 .....
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1 %• •
North British .. 20 .... 2574%...... • • 25%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 •• • • 81/ •• • .
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 . . 2% ••• • •
Ditto, Dalkeith 23 ......
Ditto, ditto ' .. • • • • 5 •• • • 6 ..
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% .. • • ••..•• • • ..
North Staffordshire .. •• 425. •• .. 3% 1; p.... p
Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn.'l2% .... 1234 13 ..
Perth and Inverness • • .. 2 !4, 14, % .
Portsmouth Direct .. • • 33i ••• • • • 33434 •• • • 3%
Shrewabury and Birmingham .. 2% 3 234
South Midland 428..... 196 p.... •• • • 1% p
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 331/4. ••• • •
1/0., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... % 2%
South Wales .. 5 .... 4% 4 4
Tean and Dove Valley.. .... 34
Trent Valley 5 .. •• 27 263; 2714
27%

.A• • -
Vale of Neith 2
Waterfil. Wexfd. Wick., & Dub. 1% 2%
York and North ilidland 50 •
Ditto, Half Sliaros 25 .... 4714 46
Ditto. Extension .. .. 15 .... 311,i • • 3114
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 .... gs 3
FOREIGN' RAILWAYS.
Bort, Tool., & Cette kllfackenz'e) 2 .... 2 ..

_ - -
Central of Spain .. 2
Dutch .. 5 5% 4-/

%
. bY

< A i; • • • • • -
East Indian .. . .. .. .. Is. .... %
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15 ii ........ 15%
Great Western Canada .. .. 3%.... 3% %..
Louvain and Jemeppe .. .. 4 .. .

• 4
Luxembourg . 1%
li-tunut and Liege .. .. 4 .... 2 2%
Sambre and Meuse .... 4 414
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... 7IA • • ••• • • • 7
West Flanders .. 4 ....
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. • ... 3 ••• • • • •• • 3%
United Mexican 281.23.8 d.. 4 ..

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LoNDoN; MARCH 12.—Wind, light airs and hazy.
DEAL, Manclf 11.—Wind N.N.k;.—Arrd. William Forster, KlHick,
Nassau ; Josephine, Bremen. Arrd. from the River for—Essex,
Morris, Madras. Arrd. from the river and aid., Palmyra, Stephens,
Bobart Town; Brechin Castle, Baxter, Adelaide ; Dinlins, llaxton,
Valparaiso; Diana, Pernambuco.
OFF' DOVER, MARCH s.—Anna Paulowna, Bek, Batavia for Am-
sterdam ; 7th, Lalland, Dekker, Batavia for Amsterdam.

PORTSMOUTH, M . —Wind , Essex, Howard,
Care of Good Hope. Th Conte Wr.l4te.ini.Braderich, from London
to Rio Janeiro, has come lato the harbour to-day, leaky, and will
discharge.

PLYMOUTH, Mnacit 11.—Wind oil, Echo, De
Quatteville, Honduras.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 11.-111nd S.E., light and variable.—Arril.
Evening Star, New Orleans ; Jane, Milligan, Mobile. Sid. Thomas
Lee, Jumee, Calcutta ; John Bibby, Cawkett, ditto; Grace, Ityrie,
Antigua ; Governor, Varty, Jamaica ; Lancaster, Wright, Vera
Cruz ; Apparition, BlamTml, ditto ; Diadem, React, ditto ;
nthum, Farley, New York.
Ave, MARCH, B.—Sld. Lady Cornwall, M'Cleod, Trinidad.
CLYDE, MARCH 9. Arrd.Gombila, Rennie, New York. Sid. Duchess
of Portland, Dickson, Trinidad ; Tor.z and Jessie, St. Thomas's.
DuarAtt, MAactl 11.—}Yind S.S.E.—SId. Ann, Crosley, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

Cox .—SII. Grecian, 'Hunter, Barbaboes. Off port, Robin Cray
Patulla, Valpo.raiso.

. -
boscasmo, Miami 9.—A jolly-haat, marked on therdern outside,
"NormantGn, of Sunderland," and inside, "John FobinFon," was
picked up off here yesterday. Appears to have been in the water
nine time.

111:2am.F.s, 3fAucn 9.—The Princess, Wells, from Cardiff to Lon-
don, which struck off this port on the 4th Inst., has been raised and
towed on to the land.

LIME:tIcK, "MAUCH 9. The Margaret and Rachel, Thomas, hence
to Tralee, is reported to have been lost with c.ll hands, between Loop
Head and Kerry Head.

KIRKCUDDRICIIT.—The Free, M'Caull, hence to Spore], got on the
roeks In going down the river, but got ofr next tlC.e, and has pro-
ceeded.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

IVLAVZ..4.7OTEi. .
Mum:rump —Meadow- Thy, 3/ 8s to 4/ 8s; Clover ditto, 41 lOs to
Gt; Oat Straw, 11125 to 1/ 145 ; Wheat Straw, I/ 14s to 11 IGs per
load. A full average supply, and a steady demand.
CUMBERLAND.-31CadOW Hay, 31 5s to 4/ lOs ; Clover ditto; 4/ 8s
to 51 Ihs ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s
per load. Trado flim, at the above quotation?.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Ilay, 313 s to 4198 ; Clover ditto, 41 lOs
to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to It 14s , Wheat straw, 1/ 14s to It IGs per
load. Supply good, and trade rather dull.

ill EAT NT Al?. nxTs.
SOUTHALL, MARCH 11.—The supplies of each kind of fat stock on
sale to-day were very limited ; owing to which the trade ruled firm,
at, in some instances, higher pricos. Beef from Zis Sd to 4e 4d ;
Mullen, 4s 61 tc 5s 8d ; Veal, 4s 10d to 5s Sd ; and Pork, 4s to 4s Sd
per_Blhs. _ .

llostroun, MARCO H.—Prima Beasts and Sheep sold readily, at
somewhat enhanced rates ; otherwise, the demand was inactive.
Beef, from 2s Oil to 4s 4d; Illtaton, 3s 10d to 5s Sd; Veal, 4s lOs
to as 6,1; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to
3er.; Quarter-old Store-pigs, 16s to 20s; and 311lch Cows, with
their small calf, 16/ to 181 each.
LRWF.s, MAncit 10. —Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; Mutton, 43 to
Gs Bd. ; Veal, 4s Btl to Gs 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 43 8d per 81bs. Supply
limited, and trade brisk.

IXTEIWGJITIC .&? MaiLDEMMILI:M.
The supplies of each kind of 2leat on sale here were rather limited,
while the demand ruled steady, at full prices. Beet; from 2s 8d to
3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s Gd to 5e Gd ; and Pork, 3s 10d
to 5s per Sits by the euease.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES or BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended March 7, 1846, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns Li England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.

WHEAT. BARLEY" OATS. RTE. BEANS. I YEAS.
PRICE • • we, '29s 3d 21s 10,1 33s 6d 34s lid 5452.3 s 8d
DUTY,. !8s f.:4 es Od es td 9s 0 is 6d 7s Gd

RAILWAY COMMIVITES.

(THIS DAY.)

Sub• Committee No. 1.
The Committee met again this day at 12 o'clock, in room
No. 7, Mr. Strutt Chairman.

"T 1; Zit °EEC OVUM HARE GUN.

This case was adjourned from Tuesday last, and was. the
first called on.

The Committee decided that the staniing orders had been
complied NTith.
TXE STITLZWSEZTRI-7, OLITEIZEIAMT.TOZY,

Jr
soura STAIMPOILDs:II7.E.E.

This was also an adjourned case, the only point for cum-
sideration having been the serving of a few notices in ac-
cordance with the standing orders.
The Committee decided that the standing orders had been
complied with.

CEN'Z'fiAL MAITAVAY STATION.

Mr. SHERWOOD appeared in behalf of the promoters of
this Bill, which was unopposed. The formal proofs of the
deposit cf the plans and sections and the books s.t reference
having been put in, the further consideration cf the petition
fur the Bill was ailjourned. to Monday, so as to enable the
Committee to consider a formal point of objection which
presented itself to their minds. The point is simply one sp-
plying to the serving of notices.
The Committee next proceeded with a Waterworks Bill.

Sub-Committee, .No. 2.
This Committee met to-day sht rtly after twelve o'clock.
The following Members were present J. Y. Buller,
Chairman, Mr. Kemble and Mr. Walker.

ZIVZIRPOOL AND LEEDS DEILZCT.

The form,l proofs of this Bill were taken on Tuesday, and
the further consideration of the same was adjourned till
to-day. ✓

The CHAIRMAN stated that the Bill was postponed, as far
as related to proceedings before the Committee, but would be
brought under the notice of the House to-night, in accord-
ance with the wishes of the promoters.

NORTIIUMI3E:I.M.AND AND LANCASHIRE•

The object of this Bill (against which there were five peti-
tions) was to obtain Parliamentary powers to consti net this
railway, the length of which was 241/2 miles, and the esti-
mated cost 780,0001. Engineers, Messrs. Joseph Locke and
Thomas Storey ; solicitors, Maltby and Co.; Parliamentary
agent, Mr. Coates.
The formal proofs being taken, the Committee proceeded to
hear the petitions against the Bill.
The first petition was from Mr. M. Bell, complaining of
non-compliance with the standing orders, inasmuch that
no notice was served on the petitioner of the intention of
the promoters to apply to Parliament for the construction of
this identical railway, on or before the 31st of December, as
required by the Act of Parliament.
Mr. PRerr (who appeared in support of the petition) said
that the substance of the allegation was simply this :—The
promoters of this Bill gave notice that they intended to
construct a line of railway at a point marked A, and ter-
minating at a point marked C, but they only brought for-
ward a Bill for executing a line cf one-third that extent,
which terminated at a point marked B. It was quite clear
that the promoters of a Bill might give notice of their inten-
tion to construct a larger amount than they hereafter dis-
covered to be expedient to undertake, but their subsequent
promdings must be in accordance with what they intend to
prosecute. From these considerations it was evident that the
promoters of this Bill were bound, when they intended to stop
short at the point B, that they should have given the neces-
sary notice of the same. If that had been done, he was not
prepared to state that any objection would be taken to the
Bill. But in the case of the patties intereeted like his client,
the notice served stated that the whole line was to he formed.
That of course led the landowners to suppose that the rail-
way about to be a; plied for to Parliament was that com-
mencing at Newcastle-on-Tyne and terminating at the
Newcastle atiO Carlisle Railway, and therefore that they
would reap all the benefits that would result from such a line ;
but they found that only one-third of the line for which their
consent had been obtained, was to he presccieted. There
was a precedent in this cage, in the Rochester and Grave-
seed Railway Bill, which would actuate them in
their decision with reference to the present question.
He would call the attention of the Committee particu!arly
to this case, and if they would look at it in its consequences
ad extremum, they would see that it might lead to results if
the course here deprecated was permitted to be pursued:
There was a case decided last session, which was clearly in
point. lie alluded to the Wells and Dereham Railway Bill.
The Committee were, therefore, in a fair, position to decide
upon this allegation in the petition. It would, therefore, be
unnecessary for him to add any further observations.
Mr. Co.&vas, on the part of the promoters of the Bill, con-
tended that as the Yerk and Carlisle Railway Bill, which
was Lefore the House, would effect all that the original BM
proposed to do, that the petitioner was not injured by the
alteration that had taken place.
The CHAIRMAN—IIas Mr. Bell had notice of the land to be
taken from him ?

Mr. PurrT—l-Ie does not allege that he has not.
The Committee found that the standing orders in this case
had been sustained:

The next allegation was, that one -tenth of the estimate of
the reduced works was not subscribed, as required by the Act
of Parliament.

This gave rise to a discussion whether the Acf, 39 A or 29
A, which required that only one-tenth of three-foui tbs of the
estimate should be deposited, should be considered to be in-
tended to be acted upon.
The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that the latter was what
was contemplated by Parliament, but sent to the Speaker to
ascertain his opinion on the subject, which was in conformity
with his own.

The Committee, therefore, found that the allegation was
not sustained, being of opinion that it would be a great hard-
ship if parties, when they bad deposited one-tenth of three-
fourths of the estimate, should be considered as not having
complied with the Act of Parliament.
This finished the case of this petition. •
Three other petitions were abandoned.
The next petition considered was from Mr. W. Harper,
which alleged general inaccuracy in the plans and sections.
The first specific allegation was with reference to the radius
of the curve at the sixteenth mile and 7th furlong, which
was not pressed.
An allegation to the same effect, with respect to the river
at the fourteenth mile and seventh furlong, was sustained.

A similar allegation was not sustained:—
It was alleged that there was a discrepancy between the
plans with reference to a certain turnpike-road on the line,
which was not sustained:

Sub •Committee No. 4.

This Committee consisted of Sir Wm. Heathcote, chair-
man, Mr. Shirley, Mr. W. Evans, and Mr. Acland.
SI/MEWS:BURY AND lIEREr'ORDSHERE,
This case was proceeded with.
}lr. Ellicombe appeared for the promoters. Mr. Samuel
Hughes was the opposing engineer.
The case for the promoters was concluded on Wednesday.
To-day the allegations of non-compliance with the stand-
ing orders were entered upon.
Several allegations were sustained.