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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1846.

The LORD CIIANCEI Lon took his seat on the Woolsack a
Five o'clock.

Various petitions having been presented,
The Earl of CLANCARTY stated that Mr. GCLSTON haC
presented to the Committee on the Irish Poor-laws thi
papers to which a Noble and Learned Lord (BitouGH.im) hat
alluded yesterday.
Lord BltOtGliAlkl expressed himself satisfied with what
hal fallen from the Noble Earl, but he wished for the paper:
to be produced.

The Metropolitan Buildings Act passed through Com-
mittee. _

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The Marquis of CLANR!CATME proved that the petition of
G. Pryme, Esq., of Cambridge, and James Tyler, Esq., of Is-
lington, be referred to a Select Committee to inquire and report
thereon. These petitions were against the London and I ork
Railway Bill, and had been confided to him on Monday, and
he had held them over to make inquiries, and trusted that the
petitioners would not be Prevented from being heard because
he had kept back the petition.

Lord BEAUMONT opposed the motion as quite irregular.
Lord MoNTEAGLE thought the petitioners should 1,
-e per-
mitted to go before the Committee.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY thought the better course to
pursue would be to give notice of a motion suspending the
standing orders, and then the matter would be regularly dis-
cussed on Monday.
The suggestion was adopted, and the further discussion of
the point postponed till Monday, after which their Lordships
adjourned.

The SPEAKER. took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Several Railway Bills were read a second time and ordered
to b 2 committed.
Several petitions were presented in favour of the Man-
chester and Southampton Railway Bill.
Oa the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
it was ordered that the House, at its rising, should adjourn
to Monday next.
Mr. NV msoN PATTEN gave notice of his intention on Mon-
day to move the appointment of a Select Committee with re-
spect to railways.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Mr. WvsE,
said that a charter of incorporation of the Board of National

Edncation in Ireland had been granted by the Government,
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that since the grantingof that charter measures had been taken
....?-ur 1/4, -fby, the,,BoArd to establish schools in England, and also to
-1-4 " iproniote agricultural schools or colleges in Ireland.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Mr. RED-
READ Yos* , said that the Government had thought it
r
Treper to-iSt a free pardon to Joseph Mason, who was
. , sentenced' to t.*enty years' transportation, at the York March
41adseei in 1842, upon a conviction which turned out to
_ litritakintd4ce in error.
Kr. a 9 ,44,50 r., on reading the order of the day for the
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further consideration of the Customs and Corn Importation ,
Act, asked Sir R. PEEL whether it was the intention of the
Government to present to the House copies or extracts of
any correspondence which might have passed between
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and her
Majesty's Ministers at Washington, relative to the Oregon
territory ?
Sir It. PEEL thought that any explanation on the subject
was wholly unnecessary, because ke was convinced that the
expressions of her Majesty from the Throne, and
the statements of Gentlemen in that House, had not
been misunderstood. He had no objection to lay on the
table of the House those public communications which bad
already been made public, if it was thought desirable that he
should do so.
Lord J. RUSSELL wished to ask what course the Govern-
ment intended to pursue with respect to the Corn Bill, and
the Irish Life and Property Protection Bill?
Sir R. PEEL, said that he never felt greater anxiety for the
progress of a measure than he did for that with respect to
the cornslaws. He had received communications from
parties both in favour of and against Ministers, earnestly de-
siring a decision on the corn-laws. He thought it desirable
that the House should come to an early decision upon the
subject, and it was not his intention to permit any of the Go-
vernment business to interfere with it. With respect to the
Irish Life and Property Protection Bill, the course he
intended to pursue was this—he proposed to take
the second reading of the Corn Bill on Monday; it
was understood that that discussion would last till
Friday, but, in the hope that the discussion would terminate
on Thursday, he would propose that the Irish Bill should be
taken on Friday, as far as the first reading, but upon the un-
derstanding that if the debate en the Corn Bill was not con-
cluded till Friday, then that the Irish Bill should be read
a first time on Monday. He would take that opportunity of
stating, with respect to the report of the Classification Com-
mittee, relative to railways having a proposed termini in the
City, that the Government intended to act upon the recom-
mendation of the Committee, and that on Monday they
should acquiesce in the motion, and advise her Majesty to
appoint a Royal Commission upon the subject.
On the question of the further consideration of the Cus-
toms (the Tariff),
The Marquis of WORCESTER moved that timber be omitted.
Mr. H. lIINDE supported the amendment.

Mr. CARDWELL defended the resolution, observing that it
W2S one of the most popular that had been brought forward.
Mr. A. CHAPMAN objected to the resolution, believing that
it would have the effect of making this country dependent
upon foreigners for timber to build their ships.
Captain Haunts also objected to the resolution.
Mr. G. PALMER also opposed the resolution.
IVAnnuicroN supported the Government proposition,
and felt no doubt, looking at the beneficial results of the
tariff of 1842, that increased good would take place, if the
present proposition was carried into effect.
Mr. I'. BORTHWICE supported the amendment of the
Noble Marquis, the Member for Gloucester.
Mr. HENLEY and Mr. Hume: supported the Government.
Lord G. BENTINCK spoke at some length in favour of the
amendment. _ _ _

After a reply from Sir G. CLERK the House divided; their
being for the Amendment 107, for the Ministerial measure
232 ; majority 123.
The orders of the day having been disposed of, the House
adjourned at one o'clock.

The vote of the American Senate on the Oregon ques-
don, which has been looked for with some anxiety by
,took-jobbers, and by that class only, is regarded by most
other persons, at least by all who are acquainted with
the constitution of the United States, without the
slightest interest. From the speeches made in that
House on the subject, the principles on which the
Members are elected, and the enormous power granted
to the PRESIDENT, it may be taken as a certain result
that on this point all the three different estates will
agree. The popular voice in that country be s power
to influence and guide every movement both in domestic
and foreign relations, because all the agents are de-
pendent on its will. In this kingdom, even with the
numerous and great changes produced by the Reform
Biil, the power of the people arising from the franchise
is extremely limited, and when compared with that of
Cle inhabitants of the United States, can scarcely be
taken into calculation. The ten-pound franchise
ells only in the large towns—in the small boroughs
it is of no use whatever, so completely are the electors
exposed to the influence of some powerful landed pro-
prietor or mill-owner, as well as to the temptation of
bribery and corruption. The Americans are not half so
honest as the English electors, but their very condition

—the fact that they are scattered over an immense terri-
,ory, without any great lord or wealthy neighbour to

control them—compels them to look for other fruits from
heir votes than those which are generally sought after

in this country. Whatever, therefore, is the mania of
he day must be adopted by the Legislature as well as
ly the PRESIDENT himself. The elections take place
-very two years for the House of Representatives, and

those fur the Senate every six years, the Chief Magis-
•.rate being elected fur only four—all short tenure.,. A

;light glance at the mode in which these three elements
,I*Gorernment are selected is sufficient to show that the

dower of the people is without bounds, and must also ef-
ectually control the well-weighed and deliberate opinions
:vcri of all who aspire to the rank of statesmen, or to
my office whatever under Government. The re-
,resentatives are elected by the persons who elect

the popular branches of the different state legis-
:atures—that is, by the whole body of the male
nhabitants, who are of age, sound mind, and un-
ainted by conviction for felony or some degrading
!rime. The Senate is elected by the legislatuies of the
Efferent states, all chosen by the people, and the Pre-
ident is appointed by electors nominated by the dif-
erent states, each state nominating a number equal to

its senators and representatives in Congress. The num-
er of senators fur each state, whether small or great,

two ; the number of representatives depends on the
:opulation—New York, for instance, returniEg thirty-
'our members, while Delaware returns only one; but
a whatever proportion, or through whatever forms
he course of election runs, it proceeds ultimately
Vora the people as its source, and hence the
!mid, wavering, and electioneering harangues of such

nen as WEBSTER and CALHOUN, and the few other
stategmen who apparently act on indepindent principles.
E'he PRESIDENT, it is true, has a veto on the acts of
.2ongress, but that only for a limited number of times,
old besides he is a very transitory ruler—he can reign
)nly four years, and must go back to his good masters to
;et a renewal of the lease, lle has thus every induce-
ment to yield to the popular clamour, and when, as in
he present instance, he not only yields to it, but seems
.o lead it, the decisions of Congress are virtually those of
t countless democracy, scattered over a vast territory,
Ind consisting in a great measure of men half educated,
'r not educsted at all, not scrupulous in their morality,
7.nd disposed rather to contemn than respect those con-
titutional principles and those international conventions
vhich have been viewed with reverence by the inhabitants
.fmore ancient and civilised communities. The vas tron-
tge of the PRESIDENT, too, is a dangerous weapon in times
!ilee these, and cannot fail to have a most injurious in-
[nonce on Members of Congress. lie is Commander-
a-Chief of th© army and navy ; he makes treaties,
Nhicb, however, regnire the ratification of the Senate ;
'a nominates to all ju licial and diplomatic offices ; in
'act, he enjoys the whole patronage of the Union, and
tas infinitely greater means to purchase votes than arty
gowned head in Europe. This is the machine con-
structed by the WASHINOTONS, the FRANELINS, and
he ADAMSES, to be the model of Government for: the

;ow World, and the envy and wonder of the Old.
-:very day, however, it appears to fail more and more
n accomplishing the objects of its authors ; bankruptcy
nd want of national faith arc considered no defects ;
he preservation of peace, so dear to its great founder, is
he last consideration of the existing rulers; the occupa-
,ion of their neighbours' territory by force or fraud, is a
master-stroke of policy ; and a wanton assumption of
claims which they call rights, and which renders them
the enemies of every European power, is praised as a
proof of the power, and wisdom, and independence of the
aew Republic. Lord ABERDEEN, it will thus be seen,
has no easy task in preserving peace with a community
like this ; but still he is confident of success, and all we
,ay is—if the Foreign Secretary can settle the Oregon
question without a war, and at the same time maintain
he rights and the honour of England, he will be entitled
to a high rank among the first of statesmen.

Never have Members of the Lower House exhibited
,uch pertinacity in frittering away the time of Parlia-
ment and the patience of the people as the protec-
tionists have done throughout their wanton and forlorn
opposition ; and never was this grievance more manifest
than during the discussion of yesterday evening. We
had participated in the general expectation that these Hon.
Gentlemen would have yielded to the dictates of corn-
non sense, and have withdrawn, or at least moderated,
heir frivolous antagonism; their proceedings, however,
in reference to the timber duties, have dispelled the
alt-gether. They are the same egregious stumbling-
blocks as heretofore—they will not rest satisfied until
they have each individually stood in the very pathway
of the great Ministerial proposition, and been crushed
to absolutely nothing lin the passage of the free-trade
measures through Committee. In a maiden speech of
no pretensions whatever, the Marquis of WORCESTER
moved an amendment favourable to the continuance
of protection to foreign timber, and, after a
few moments of significant trepidation on the
part of Mr. H. HiNnE, that Honourable Gentleman
supported the amendment. Oilier speeches condemna-
tory- of this particular resolution, as well as of various
other resolutions in the tariff cn masse, were delivered
by Mr. CHAPMAN, Captain HARRIS,
Mr. PALMER, Mr.
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during two mortal hours in the utterance of an harangue
perfectly commensurate with the shallowness of
his cause. About the most tangible argument upon
which these disputants` laid especial stress was, the
malific consequences to our colonial possessions, which
must result from such a reduction of duties upon the
importation of timber, And also upon the direct man"

in which it would deteriorate our shipping trade gene- .
rally. For evidence (?) of the reality of those gloomy ex-
pectations, a few garbled quotations from statistical tables
and a swarm of lugubrious forebodings were produced ;
and in this is concentrated the whole cause, force,
and bearing of that long-winded opposition of last night,
than which, altogether, nothing could be more useless,
more incorrigible, or more thoroughly contemptible in
every conceivable respect. Looking at the matter in its
truest and simplest point of view, namely, as to whether
the proposed reduction would be advantageous or
detrimental to our colonies, but especially to Ca-
nada (whose interests were treated overnight
with the most hypocritical tenderness by the
mock-paladins of agriculture), what are the veritable
conclusions at which we must arrive ? How are we to
deduce our primary inferences upon the question one
way or the other ? In which direction must we look
for our first answer ? Surely to those individuals whose
interests are one and indivisible with the interests of
our colonial territories (Canada for instance), and our
shipping trade ; or to those whose fortunes fluctuate in
a lesser degree to the fluctuations of either of such im-
portant funds. And how, forsooth, have those persons
acted with reference to the resolution embodying a re-
duction of the timber duties ? By not making any de-
monstration worthy of a moment's notice against a
matter so materially connected with their pockets !
Surely that silent acquiescence upon the proposed inno-
vation of Sir R. PEEL is sufficiently significant, and is
more worthy of consideration than the idle and pecu-
liarly personal manifesto of men merely striving to
retard the progress of an entire sy=stem, by seizing
hold of any and every clause ! 7n reference to this
circumstance Mr. CARDWELL spoke judiciously and feel•
ingly. lie controverted the fallacies about the injuries
which would be entailed upon cur colonies in a few
simple, but irrefragable facts ; he proved by the plainest
possible arithmetic, that far from the interest of Canada
being tampered with, by the proposed alteration, that
country would, on the contrary, be materially bene-
fited, adducing, in corroboration of the statement, the
gradual but glaring increase in the amount of the timber
trade subsequent to the discarding of the old duty in 1842.
The progressive improvement is too striking to be
omitted :—ln 1843, it amounted to 45,0001. ; in
1844, to 71,000/. ; in 1845, to 94,000 L Of the good
which has resulted to the shipping trade also from
the reductions in the last tariff, the calculation
of that interest in Liverpool is remarkable evi-
dence enough. For 1838, the number of vessels entered
in that port were 305, the aggregate amount of whose ton-
nage was 160,000; in 1842, (the transition year, be it ob-
served!)the number of vessels was 165, the tonnage of which
was 90,000 ; while in 1845, the number of vessels had
actually increased to 423, with a tonnage of 239,000.
One more transcript from the table of returns, and our
employment of Arabic numericals shall terminate for
the present ; and this conclusive quotation is no less
than an estimate of the exports of Canadian timber pre-
cedent and subsequent to the reduction already made
in that article. In 1838, 15,000,000 loads of timber were
exported ; in 1842 (the transition again !), merely
9,000,000 ; whereas in 1845 there was an exportation
of 28,000,009. After glancing over these incontestible
facts, it is really beyond all Christian endurance to hear
the flimsy prating of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, and his
irrelevant and hackneyed allusions to " letting loose the
hell dogs of war," and "clouds in the west," and "re-
posing on our laurels." It is provocative of more than
impatience, it rouses up the indignation of
every unbiassed thinker, to behold those who might
be endowing their countrymen with blessings,
persisting, Si ith a sullen and stolid blindness, in the pro-
crastination of an issue which they must know to be in-
evitable ; allowing stagnation to fall upon commerce ;
disease and privation to accumulate in :the sister island ;
and themselves to become, not merely an isolated, but a
repudiated faction in their native land. As if to enforce
this conviction upon them, by showing them beyond all
gainsaying their utter impotence, the majorities by which
their amendments are severally quash, d are becoming
really something too ludicrously disproportioned for a
sober perusal. Let us hope that this weapon of division
will goad them at length into silence.

We have received Madrid journals of the 13th, but
they aid little to our previous information respecting the
dissolution of the Ministry. Some of the papers state
that it was mainly owing to a difference of opinion
among the Members themselves as to the measure re-
cently brought forward by the Minister of the Interior
for the dotation of the clergy, and that the Bill would be
withdrawn.

On the 13th the Three per Cents. closed on the
Madrid Bourse at 28 9-16 cash, and 28; for the 30th of
April. The Five per Cents. were not quoted.

In the French Chamber of Peers, on Thursday, a de.
bate took place on the Polish insurrection, which was
begun by the Count DE MONTALEMBERT when discuss-
ing the Secret Service Money Bill. The Noble Peer
regretted that he could Rot grant the Ministry a vote of
confidence as regarded their foreign policy, and least of
all, with regard to Poland. his object in adverting to
the question was to defend the holiest legitimacy, the
only one he recognised—the right of every nation to
exist and be governed according to the laws of justice.
The late insurrection, he maintained, bad not been ex-
cited from abroad. The Poles required no such excita-
tion. Their oppression was a perpetual cause of excite-
ment; it was their right to strive to shake off an iron
yoke; it had been their history during the last eighty
years. He had not the courage, like others, in pre-
sence of the reverses of the insurgents and the blood
they had just shed, to blame their late attempt. No-
body in France was placed in a condition to appreciate
the circumstances that led to the insurrection, and to
judge of its opportunity. Those who are deprived of
all the blessings enjoyed in other countries should tot
be lightly condemned for not better biding their time
and calculating their chances of success. He then
examined the condition of the Poles under the Prussian
and Austrian rule, and commended the system pursued
by Prussia towards her Polish subjects, who were at
least frk.ed from bondage and all forced labour. In Gal-
licia the people possessed nothing, and could legally pos-
sess nothing. The pe:sants were subjected to the
most arbitrary treatment, and it was not surpris-
ing that they had revolted against the nobility.
It was JOSEPH 11. who had estranged from the
latter the affection of the rural classes. That Sovereign
had charged the nobility with the exercise of the most
onerous and oppressive part of the Austrian system
of government. It had been denied that Austria
had set a price on the head of the Gallician nobles, but
he had received a document from which it appeared that
something very like this had been done, for the Aus-
trian Government bad offered a premium of 12f. to the
peasant who should reveal the intrigues of the nobles,
and 251. to those who delivered their landlords hand-
cuffed to the authorities. But Poland, he foretold, would
again rise; twenty-two millions of souls were not easily
exterminated, and so long as justice should be denied
them they would revolt. And why should Poland cease
to hope, when she sees Greece and Ireland, so long op-
pressed, and like her effaced from the map of Europe, re-
sume their rank among nations ? He declared, in con-
elusion, that Poland was imperishable, and that he hoped
to live to witness her resurrection, and to see M. Guizor
himself come forward to proclaim the legitimacy and
equity of her revolution. M. GUIZOT briefly replied, and
said he did not consider it useful or expedient to enter
on such a discussion. It was not the duty of the
Government to interfere in favour of, or take part in, the
Polish insurrection—all the Government could possibly
do was to afford a hospitable refuge to Polish exiles, and
give them all the assistance due to their misfortune. A
Government, after mature reflection, having adopted a
political resolution, should shape its actions to it words.
Now, the partition of Poland was an accomplished fact,
upon the justice of which the present Government had
not been called to pronounce, and which it had merely ac••
cepted with the rest of Europe. The Prince DE MOSKOWA
the son of Nxv, who knew the Poles well, next ad-
dressed the Chamber, and was left speaking at the hour
of post. It appears from the A I eridionale, a paper pub-
lished at Toulouse, that a disturbance had taken place
at the theatre of that town, in consequence of the
audience making some very noisy demonstration in re-
gard to the Polish insurrection. The following account
of the affair appears in that journal of the 16th inst. :

"The representation of Robert le Diable last night was
attended with more agitation than that of Don Sebastien on
Friday. Sunday is the day most favourable to demonstra-
tions of this kind. After the second act the cries reached
their loudest point, and the performance could proceed no
farther. Attempts were made to sing the Marseillaise, the
Parisievne—and then Malbrourk, La Bovange?re, and we
know not what other songs of a character not very pa-
triotic. It was again necessary to clear the house, and we
saw with deep sorrow those deplorable scenes, supported by
people who, under pretence of 'sympathy in favour of
Poland,' injure that cause and the sympathies which might
be raised fur it. Several police agents were ill-treated and
wounded. A sergent de ville being alone in the pit, was
seized by the rioters, thrown down under the benches, and
trampled on and kicked in such a manner, as to cause fears
to be entertained of his recovery. After the house was
cleared, tke disturbance was mewed on the Place du Capi-
tole. A. display of military force was made, in order to deter
tthhee mleogbalfrwoamrnainn3g, acts s of violence; but an inspector of police
having received a severe wound in the head from a stone,
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officer of the district, the prefect of the department, and the
sub-prefects, were at the theatre."
The National and Reforme contain long lists of sub-
scriptions in favour of the Poles. The total amount,
reckoning the collections mrde in different parts of
France, on Wednesday morning exceeded 100,000 f.
(25,0000

The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following letter, ad-
dressed by Prince Metternich to the different Courts of Ger-
many. It is dated the 7th
The news of the occupation of Cracow by our troops and
those of Russia, and the happy termination of the in-urrec-
tion in every part of the republic, have been announced by
the Vienna journals. If we cast a glance at the events
which in the space of a few days produced convulsions and
a calamity beyond description, we know not whether we
ought to be most astonished at the degradation of those who
conceived this audacious madness, or at the conduct of those
who, miscalculating the means at their disposal, attempted
to execute it, and who have become victims of au enterprise
which could not. succeed. Without doubt the plot had been
cleverly concerted. A vast conspiracy, spreading over the
Austrian and Prussian portions of Poland, was conceived, and
the free territory of Cracow served as a kind of depot for the
use of the conspirators. Numerous emissaries, sent out by
the leaders, covered the country, and their seductions and
insinuations found favour with the country gentlemen
and their dependents, who were in greater number in
the provinces of ancient Poland than elsewhere. In the
territory of Cracow, defective administrative institutions,
and a social condition disorganized in every respect fa-
voured those efforts. Communist doctrines were ac-
tively di,seminated in all directions amongst the people,
and the heads of the movement, who certainly
cared very little about such doctrines, as far as they
were personally concerned, indulged in the senseless hope
that the agreeable prospect of freeing the peasants from the
payment of taxes would decide the masses to serve as their
instruments in carrying out their plans; and yet they also
fancied that when the Governments had been overturned, and
that the Utopia of the Polish kingdom had been established,
they should be able to drive back the irritated waves into
such a channel as might appear most favourable to their
designs. But it was particularly in Gallicia that it might be
clearly seen, that such projects were void of common sense
and inexecutable. That country has been for 83 years umier
the sovereigaty of Austria, and when it came into the hands
of Austria was in a miserab'e state of political organization.
Our Austrian laws, and particularly our good institutions,
have been introduced into Gallicia. The effect of those in-
stitutions has been appreciated by the people of the country
and by the mass of the population, who have now compre-
hended that it is the throne which protects them, as well as
all their existence. This is precisely what the Polish emi-
grants who caused the movement have misunderstood and
forgotten. They expected to find the people of the same
feeling as themselves, but they were completely mistaken.
The peasantry of Gallicia do not understand communist
phrases, and the Polish system is odious to them, because
they well remember the misery which has resulted from
it. The great majority of the preachers of liberty are
with them the oppressors of their peasantry. When the
nobles provoked the peasants to revolt, and the insurgents,
assembled in great numbers in certain places, wished to
compel the peasants by bad treatment to take part in the
revolt, the movement which they wished to foment turned
against the instigators themselves. Many of the latter fell
victims to the rage of the people, and the others were de-
livered up to the authorities. All is now quiet and orderly
in Gallicia, and the movement no longer merits the name of
revolution, but of counter-revolution, the flame of revolt
being extinguished in Cracow, and the revolutionists of
Gallicia, whose projects have been rendered abortive, are in-
capable of any longer disturbing the peace of the country.
After such shocks time must be required to restore moral
calmness to men's minds. The Government is turning its
attention to this task, and will proceed in it with the greater
success as it is encouraged by the broad basis on which the
Government of Gallicia is founded to believe in the faithful
attachment to the generality of the population. Be pleased
to communicate this dispatch to the Cabinet to whom you
are accredited."

The Duke D'AUMALE and the Prince of SAXE
COBURG arrived at Toulon on the evening of the 14th,
with a suite of about thirty persons. The Princes were
to have embarked on the following clay for Algeria.

On Thursday the Three per Cents. dosed on the Paris Beurse at
84f. 15c. ; the New Loan, 84f. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 50c. ; the
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,315 f. ; Rouen, 1,0601. ; Havre, 7501. ; Great
Northern, 7851. ; Avignon, 980 f.; Vierson, 737 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux,
680 f. ; Boulogne, 5251. ; Troyes and Montereau, 422 f. 50c. ; Basle,
2441. ; Fampoux, 465 t ; Dieppe, 4731. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
542 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 576 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, de-
finitive, 621 f. boc. ; Spanish Passive, 574.

The following were the quotations for other lines:—

Lyons and AYlpton Railroad (Talabot), 512 f. ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 505 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Cetta (Mackenzie), 802 f. 75c.; ditto (Ecpeleta), 504 f.;
Charleroi, 490 f.
LYONS, MAucn 17.—Rouen, 1,066 f 25e. ; Ylerzon, 758 E 75c.
IIUSINESS 1)0NI1 IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 31Aucu 20

Boulogne and Amiens, I i/N - Bordeaux , Toulouse, and Cette
Mackenzie), 2—Ditto (Espeleta), —Central of Spain, I,4—Dutch
Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, %—treat Northern of France Consti-
tuted, Hi—Great Western Canada, 3h—Louvain and Jetnappe,
—Luxembourg. 2—Namur and Liege, 214—Orleans and Bordeaux,
13y,—Over Yssel,

The Committee on the Andover Union met yesterday for
the first time. Lord Courtenay was elected chairman, and
the Committee determined not to commence the investigation
till after Easter.

Mr. Bunn left London for Paris this morning, at eleven
o'clock, travelling post the whole way.

Mr. Philip Howard, M.P. for Carlisle, paired off with Mr.
Frederick Hodgson, M.P. for Barnstaple, in favour of the pro-
posed alteration in the Timber Duties.

LORD MAN OR'S COURT.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Hon. C. E. LAW, Recorder.)

DENTON, PLAINTIFF, TUE GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWIT/I, AND
CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY COMPANY, DEFENDANTS, AND

MESSRS. GLYNN, HALIFAX, AND CO. GARNISHEES.
Mr. Locke appeared on behalf of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith' and Central Wales Railway Company, to move that an
attachment issued from this Court of moneys in the hands of
the garnishees alleged to belong to the above company should
be dissolved. Mr. Ryland appeared to watch the case for
the plaintiff.
Mr. LOCKE contended that the attachment could not be
maintained, as, in fact, no such company Was legally in ex-
istence, it ntt having been incorporated, but only provision.
ally registered ; and therefore the parties connected with it
could not be sued as a company.
_ _

Mr. RYLAND said it did not matter if they chose to assume
a title; but, at all events, this was not the time or mode to
try the question, as the matter of the attachment could not be
brought before the Court till the case came on for hearing.
The RECORDER said the attachment was with Mer_zers.
Glynn and Co., the garnishees, and he therefore wished to
try the question on affidavits by another party whether that
attachment was right er not.
Mr. LocKE—Our answer to it is, that the garnishees have
no such goods, for there are no such persons or no such
Company.
The RECORDER—I do not see bow I can decide that point.
'You want to dissolve the attachment, but you do not put
your answer in the shape of a plea; the garnishees may
plead that they have no money belonging to such persons,
and if they succeed in proving that on your present or future
argument, then, of course, there will be an end of the attach-
ment.

Mr. LocKß—But the great difficulty is, that the garnishees
are not likely to plead.
The REC/JRDER—If you make out that there is no such
company in existence, how will you make out that any
money paid into the bankers belongs to you at all? You
wish to be a vivacious body for one purpose, and a disem-
bodied spirit for another—that you have a legal competency
to become a plaintiff, but not to be sued. You would appear
as a brave body against the bankers, but on the appearance
of a plaintiff would vanish. (Laughter.) The Learned
Judge said that these unincorporated persons had a quick
sense of their rights and a very dim view of their obliga-
tions. Ifs did not consider he could take off the attach-
ment on the ground sulanitted ; it must be argued on the
merits. If the garnishes did not plead, the defendant was
not condemned if he could make out his plea.
The motion was refused.
ISAACS V. GREEN.

This was an action to recover the sum of .5/. for money lent.
It appeared by the evidence that the defendant had been
treasurer to a club called the Friendly Union, held in Hounds -
ditch, which, in ihe early part of last year was about to be
dissolved. Defendant was found to be deficient 1201., but,
on a day appointed, paid 901., and the difference was
advanced by a person named Brandon, on Isaacs and
his brother, and two other persons, undertaking to
leave their five pounds each due from the club as
security to Brandon. The Isaacses shortly after commenced
an action against the defendant, but afterwards, in March
last, agreed to suspend all proceedings for twelve months, if
the costs in the two actions were paid, and Brandon paid the
cost, 6/. Ils. Bd.
An agreement was put in to prove that faet, and Mr.
Ryland and Mr. Laurie, who appeared for the plaintiff, said
they had been very much deceived in their instructions, and
must at once consent to a nonsuit, and begin again when the
time had fully transpired.

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROONS.—A rumour has
been current in high society that the Queen intends to request her
Majesty, the Queen• Dowager, to hold drawing-rooms during her re-
tirement. We do not know how far this rumour is founded, but her
Majesty eould not have a substitute more respected and beloved.
Great losses would be saved to the trade of the metropolis, whilst the
small attendance at the recent drawing-room shows that they have
taken place too early to be of avail.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—The Duke and Duchess
de Nemours are expected to arrive at the Castle tke latter end of
May, or the beginning of June, to escort her Majesty and the Prince
Consort to Paris, upon a visit to the King and Queen of the French.
The infant Royal Family, as at present arranged, will remain at
Osborne House during the absence of their illustrious parents on the
Continent. It is expected that the Queen and Prince Albert will be
away from England at least three weeks. _

The Lord Bishop of Lii;cclniiiis consented to preside
at the annual banquet of the subscribers to the Literary Fund, on

the 13th of May.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL COLLARD.—We regret to an
nounce the decosse of the above Gallant Officer. which took place on
Wednesday last, at his seat, Teddington, Middlesex, at the advanced
age of seventy-six. The Gallant Admiral has been for sonic time
past labouring wider great depression of spirits, arising from the less
of his wife. lie had also suffered from an attack of apoplexy, which
greatly affected his mind, reducing him to a state of occasional de-
spondency, which resulted in his committal of an act of self-destruc-
tion, while left alone for a short period, on Wednesday last.
Mr. Byng paired last night iu favour of a reduction of
the timber duties with Mr. Walehouse

ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT-I
—On Friday the annual
general meeting of the members of this Society, incorporated .by
royal charter, August 2, 1827, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern,
Abraham Cooper, Esq., R.A., in the chair. From the report, which
was read by A. U. Thiselton, the secretary, it appeared that the
Society still continued to receive the patronage and liberal support
of its illustrious patron, the Queen ; that there were at present
thirty-six widows, each receiving from the fund a yearly gra-
tuity of 20/., and twenty-three orphans, each receiving a yearly
gratuity of 5/. ; that the receipts of the year had been 1,370/.
15s. 9d., the expenditure 1,3381. 10s. 2d., leaving a balance of 321.
Os. 7d., to be carried to the account of next year. The report
wag adopted. Mr. Benjamin B. Cabbell announced that Lord
Viscount Morpeth, M.P., had consented to preside at the 37th anni-
versary festival on May oth, and that her Majesty the Queen had
sent her Bth annual donation of 100 guineas to the fund. The fol.
lowing noblemen and gentlemen were elected life members of the
society :—The Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Derby, Lord Foley, Sir J.
W. Lubbock, Bart.; J. B. Byron, Esq. ; A. 11. Goldsmid, Esq ; C.
Henderson, Esq. • the Rev. J. W. Mackay, M.A.; W. C. Macready,
Esq. ; Edward i'epys, Esq. ; and the following gentlemen were
elected annual members :—George Godwin, Esq., Fit S.; Charles
Goodwin, Esq., secretary to the Queen Dowager ; Oetavius Thisel ton,
Esq., and Thomas Waring, Esq. A vote of thanks to the president
and other officers closed the proceedings.
FLIGHT OF WILD FOWL,—Yesterday a large flock of
wild ducks hovered over the river Thames, near Kingston, and flew
in a southern direction.

SNOW STORM IN THE NORTH.- NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TyNE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The weather, which has been un-
usually fine for some time past, yesterday become celd and. frosty,
and during the night a snow storm commenced, which has continued
without Intermission during the whole day, and still rages with un-
abated fury. The snow is nearly two feet deep, and the 'Toads are
almost impassable. The railway trains have been delayed, and some
not able to go at all ; and, should the storm continue over night, It
will be impossible for the coaches to run northward. Those duo
this evening have not yet arrived. This is7jtlie most severe storm of
snow experienced In tills Clistrict Da many years.

MONEY and COMMEROPIAL NEWS,
CITY, QUARTER TO THRER.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was dull and
heavy, but prices have not varied from previous quotations.
The sales were over 4,000 bales.
Shares;in established lines are lower to-day, and in scrips
almost impossible to make sales, except at considerable
reductions.
The total value of imports at the port of Toronto, for the
year ending the sth of January, 1846, is 124,747/. sterling,
the revenue collected, 22,200/. currency. The increase on
several important articles has been very considerable ' • and
if the duty on some of these, such as tea and tobacco, had not
been reduced, the revenue would have shown an amount cor-
responding with it. The increased importation of tea alone,
as compared with last year, is 65,2891b5.
Estimated value of exports, 187,7001.
Increase of shipping on Lake Ontario in the year 1845 :
Two ships, three brigs, three schooners, and one propellor;
total, 2,712 tons.
The features in the Bank of England Weekly Statement,
up to Saturday last, are these :
Notes issued ....
Increase
Rest—lncrease
Public Deposits—lncrease ......
• Other Deposits—Decrease
7-day and other Bills—Decrease
Other Securities—Decrease
Notes—lncrease.
Bullion .

£27,117.805
38j.'35
9,915
302,169
351,7F0
10,689
195,200
135,495
••
Increase ..... 47,855
The Bank Directors, therefore, are pursuing a very steady
course, and the items are the same nearly in regard to their
continued increase or decrease as they were in the preceding
week.
The English Stcck Market is exceedingly dull, and prices
are almost nominal. Consols realise 95% to 96 for present
transfer, and 96 for time. The premium on Exchequer-bills
has been 235. to 265. Bank Stock for Account has been
worth 212%.
The Foreign Bonds are slack also. Spanish Five per
Cents. 25%; the Passive, 5%; Portuguese Old, 78; Buenos
Ayres have been 38% to 39; Grenada Deferred, 41/2 ; and
Venezuela 44. •
The Share Market is giving way still, aad everything dealt
in has been lower, whether scrip or established lines.
The share auction by Messrs. Lamond yesterday afternoon
attracted more buyers than could have been expected, but
only at low rates. Still, Lowever, prices are even more de •
pressed in the Stock Exchange to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK*
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities
Batik Stock for Account .. • .. 21231
Consols for Account .. • .. 96
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. I%d.
1,0001. .... 23 26 pm.
5001. .• •• • • 23 27 Pm.
Ditto. Small ...• 23 27 Pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 89 3831
Granada, 1 per Cent. ••
Ditto, Deferred ••
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 25%
Dit to, Passive Bonds
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 44
Dividends on the above payable in London.
%BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Paz SHARE.
Amber., Notting., Roston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% to --
Buckinghamshire .. .• 425. % die.. to
Caledonian .. .. • • • • .• 10 9% 10 to 9%
Ditto Half Shares • . 231 •• • • .2% %• • to
Ditto Extension . 2% .... 1%..., to
Cambralge and Oxford 1% .... to
Chester and Holyhead •• .. 20 .• •. 19 .... to
Cork and Waterford .. .. • . .... to
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .... to 1
Direct Manchester (Remington's) .. 1 •• .. to
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) bk.... 3%.... to
Direct Northern 23% .... 231 .. • to 1%
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. •• 10 6 .•., tf
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 1%.... to
Eastern Counties .. • • • . 141. 16s. 0d..... 20%54 • • to
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61. I 3s. 4d % p.. to
Ditto, ditto .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d % p.. to
Ditto, York Exteasion 10s.
East Lincolnshire .. .. • . 1%
East and West of England .. .. % .. to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. •• .. 50
Ditto, Halt Shares 5
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester ..
Goole, Doncaster. and Sheffield, &c... 425. • •
Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn) I% .. to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 17 .. •• to
Great Western .. .• 88 145 .... to

.• 78

liitto. Quarter Shares .. • • .. .... 1534 to
Ditto, Fifths .. •. .. • • •• 20 .• • • 3134 •... to 32
Hull and Selby .. .. • 50 •••• to
Ditto, Half Shares .• .. • • • . 7 .. • • 25%34 • • to
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth • • 2 .. • • 1 .. •• to %
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. • • 2% •• • • 2%.. ••to
Liverpool. Mauch and Newc. Junct. 2% •• • • 234 .... to
London and Birmingham ......100 .• . • 219 .. • to
Lendon and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• .• to
Lokdon and Brighton .. 50 .... 62% %• . to
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • .• 40 ••• • to
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .• • • •• 20 .- 29 .... to 28%
London and South-Western •• 411. 63. 10d. .... 7534% . to
Ditto, New .. .. 10 •• .• 17 .. .• to
London and York .. '.• • .. 234 .... 2 k .... to
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • 234 •• • 2%.... to
London, Warwick, and Kidderminster 2% 1%, .... to
Londonderry and Coleraine • • • • 7% •• • • 534 to -
Blauchster and Leeds • • • • .. 82 .• .• .... to --
Ditto, Halt' Shares • • • • • • •• 38 .... 56 .... to
Manchester and Birmingham .. • • 40 •• .. 75% .... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 .• • • 734 .... to 7
Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 .. • • 1% .... to 2
Midland •• • • • • • • • • ..100 ....144% to 146
Ditto, New .• • • .. 18 . 293 •. to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 26 •. •• to
Newcastle and Berwick • • • • •• 10 1334 34,34 to
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • . • • 2% .... 1% • • to
Norfolk Extension .. .. 2 .... 1 .... to
North British .. .. • • .. .• 20 .• .• •• .• to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. .. 1% to
North Kent and Direct Dover • • .. to 2
North Staffordshire .. • . • • 425. 3% pto
Norwich and Brandon •• .. • • 18 •• • . .... to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • • 5 • • 734.... to
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% .... 12 .. . to 1134
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester 425. •••• 134 dis. to
Scottish Midland .. • . .. • • • • 5 •• • • 2 .. • • to
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Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• • • 2%.... 2% 4.. to
Shropshire Union . •• •• 425..... 84 dis• . to
South and Midlands Junction .. • • 425. •• •• 34% dis to
South Eastern and Dover .. •-• • • 33% •. •• to
Ditto, New, No. 4 • • .. .. 2% • ..• 2%84.. to—
South Wales .. .. • • •• •• 5 .. •• 4 •• to 31. E
Wing, Reading, and Basingstoke .. 51A 2% .. to
Vale of heath • • •• • • • • • • 2 .• •• 2 .• • • to
' Waterfd. IVexfd., Wicklow, & Dublin I% %.... to
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth .. 2% •• • • 2% .• ••to
York and Lancaster • . • • • • 2%•••• %.. to
York and North Midland • . •• •• 50 .• ••.. to
Ditto, Selby .. •• •• •• 30 ••• • 73 .. •• to -•••
•
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens •• •• .. 12 .... 12%.... to
Bord., Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 •• .. to
Ditto, ditto (Esrelete) • • • • 2 .. • . 2% .... to
Dutch Rhenish •• •• 5 .• • . 5 .. • . to 6
Lyons and Avignon .. .• •• •• 2 •• • • 2 .. ••to
Luxembourg . • .. .. 4 • • IN to
Madrid and Yalentia . • • • • • • • 2 .. • • 0% •• • • to
Namur and Liege .. .. • . . 4 •• 2%.... to
Orleans and Bordeaux • . 6 •••• 12%.... to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England • • 35 •• •• 3.5% .... to
MINES

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. .... 3% .... to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Mama 21.—`Find S., light airs and calm, and line clear
weather.

DEAL, MARCH 20.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—Acrd. American
Lass, Ammens, Demerara.

Pt.:mourn, Mattel.' 20. Wind E.N.E. Arrd. Davenport,
WlCenzie, St. John's, New Brunswick, water logged, and with loss
of foremast and bowsprit.

Fai.mouTn, Dimwit 20.—Wind W., fresh and squally. —Arrd.
Coquette, St. Helena, with loss of boats, bulwarks, stanchions, &c.
REDCAR, Malta' 20.—A small quantity of the wreckage of a small
steam-vessel, one portion marked " Lark," was washed on shore
here yesterday.

SUNDERLAND, MARCH 19.—The schooner Undey, of Newburg, in
putting back yesterday, struck on the bar, and became leaky, was
laid on the North Sand, and has discharged.
BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 20.—1 t is blowing a gale at N.E.—The
Magnet, Taylor, from Hartlepool to Swinemunde, was struck by a sea
on the 18th inst in long. 2, lat. 30 E., and filled ; crew saved.
PENZANCE, MARCH I:o.—Thc brig Tom and Jessie, Tregarthen,
from Glasgow to st. Thomas, put into St. Mary, Scilly, leaky.
ST. ÜBES, MARCH 12.—The Belgian brig Jean de Locquenghieu,
from St. Domingo to Antwerp, put in here yesterday, very leavy, and
must discharge. The Africa Wolsguard, bound to the Baltic, has put
back, leaky, and with part of her cargo thrown overboard, having
struck the bar.

VIGO, MARCH 4.—The Bon Fortuna, Rois, from Lisbon to St.
Michaels, out 22 days, has put in here, with damage; and also the
Vencedora dos Santos, from Cardiff to Fayal,

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN.
Immense quantities of fruit and vegetables were on offer, yet a good
business was doing at our quotations —Potatoes from 4s to 8s per
cwt Turnips, 10d to 2s ; Carrots, 3s 6d to to 6d "; Spring Onions,
2s 4d to 2s 34 ; Greens, is 9d to 2s 6d ; and Leeks, 6d to Is 2d per dozen
bunches. Apples, is 6d to 4s ; and i,pinacb, 6d to 8d per half sieve.
Forced Potatoes, 4d to 8d ; Pine Apples, 65 to 9s per lb. Savoys
6d to 10d ; and Cauliflowers, Is 6d to 5s per dozen. Celery, 8d to
2s ; Horseradish, Is 6d to 5s ; forced Asparagus, 4s 6d to 6s ; and
Rhubarb, 6d to is 2d per bundle. Oranges, 7s to 12s; and Lemons,
7e to lOs per hundred. Sea-kale, Is 3d to 3s 6d per punnet. Turnip
Greens, Id to 3d ; and Brocoli Sprouts, 4d to 8d per bushel; Ra-
dishes, 3d to 8d per dozen hands.

NDWGILTI3 AND LEADENNALL.
Frime Mutton and Pork commanded a ready sale, at full prises.
In other kinds of meat very little was doing. Beef, from 2s 6d to
3s 8d; Muttox, 38 4d to 48 6d; Veal, 45 8d to 5s Bd.; and
Pork, 3s Gd to 5s per Sibs. by the carcase. Turkeys, 3s to 9s;
Geese, 58 to 7s; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d ; Tame Rabbits, is 4d to is
8c1; Wild ditto, 4d to 8d ; Pigeons, 6d to Is; and Roasting Pigs, 6s
to 9s each; Fowls, 3s 6d to 8s per couple ; Partridges, Is to 28 ;
Hares, 3s to 3s 6d ; Woodcocks, 2s to 2s 6d ; Snipes, 6d to 10d ;
Grouse, is Gd to 2s; Wild Ducks, Is Gd to 2s; and Widgeons, is 3d
to Is 65 each.