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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1846.

The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack
at Five o'clock.
Various petitions haying been presented,
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of the
Charitable Trusts Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM suggested the propriety of postponing
the further consideration of the Bill until after Easter.
The LORD CHANCELLOR consiOered it would be most de-
sirable to proceed with the Bill, the principle of which he at
some length proceeded to vindicate.
Lord CorrENH.tor complained that the Bill proposed to
itself
did to the Commissioners powers which the Crown
did not possess.
Ultimately it was, agreed to postpone the second reading
of the Bill, and their Lordships adjourned.

The SPEAKEIt took the chair at four o'clock.
Several railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered
to be committed.
Sir R. PEEL presented petitions in favour of the Govern•
malt measures, with respect to corn and the tariff.
Lord DUNCAN postponed his motion with respect to the
window-tax till after Easter.
Sir R. INGLI3 asked, pursuant to notice, when it was the
intention of the Government to introduce the Bills, prepared

bitheTreasury, for carrying out the recommendations of the
4th and sth reports of her Majesty's Commissioners for the
improvement of the metropolis.
Sir R. PEEL said the Bills were prepared, but his Noble
litend (the Secretary for Ireland) feeling desirous to sea
hem before they were introduced, they had been sent to him
in Ireland, and they would be introduced immediately on
their return.
Mr. COBDIN presented petitions from the tenantry of Sir
Jamics GRAHAM, at Netherby, in favour of the Government
measure with respect to the corn-laws. The petitioners
stated, however, that they would have preferred the imme-
diate and total repeal of the corn-laws.
Six J. QUILUIP geatuniiis the debate on the 'second

reading of the Corn Importation Bill, assured the House,
with reference to the petition that had just been presented,
that he had never interfered in the slightest degree with his
tenants, upon the subject on which the petition had been
presented. He was prepared on public grounds, notwith-
standing all the obloquy that had been attempted to be can
upon him, to support the present measure, which, he felt as-
sured,
would receive the sanction of Parliament. He was
convinced that there was no ground for the alarm that had
been expressed by several members for the results if the
present measure was carried ; the value of land would not be
decreased, the rents would be kept up, and the public mind
would be set at rest upon the question. He was one of the
trustees of land in Essex. and it was not until within the last
three weeks that he and his co-trustees had been offered that
rent for it which they thought it was worth. If it was to be
supposed that the measure would have the effect of throwing
land in the country out of cultivation, why, he would ask,
should such individuals as Lord GEORGE BESeTINCK be
found foremost in a project to recover land from the ocean?
He denied the assertion that had been made that the famine
in Ireland was totally without foundation, and that the
greatest misrepresentation had been made with respect to it.
The report of the Government Commissioners was not the
first thing that alarmed him with respect to the state of
Ireland, for his attention had been called to it by a letter of
the 21st of October, from the secretary of the Agricultural
Society of Ireland. Immediately up m receiving the infor-
mation the Government thought it their duty to revise the
laws with respect to the importation of food, and the result
of their revision was the introduction of the measure now
before the House. The Right lion. Gentleman then read
several letters for the purpose of showing that the state-
ments that had been made by the Government relative to
the disease in the potato crop: had not been exaggerated,
and from which it appeared that one-fourth of the crop was
totally unfit for human food. Added to this, a deputation
from Limerick had waited on the Lord Lieutenant at Dublin
but a few days ago, to represent to him the alarming state of
destitution and want of food that existed in that part of the
country. The Right lion. Baronet concluded by warmly
supporting the Bill, and assuring the Recorder of DUBLIN
that he preferred his open hostility to his smouldering re•
sentment. The Right Hon. Gentleman had cast the horo-
' scope of the Government, had stated that he found they
were falling, and he sat behind them in order to kick them
because they were falling.
Mr. STRUTT, the Marquis of WORCESTER, Mr. D. GARD-
NER, and Mr. MILDMAY, opposed the Bill, which was sup-
ported by Mr. BOUVERIE.
The House was subsequently addressed by Sir R. PEEL,
Mr S. O'BRIEN, and Lord PALMERSTON ; after which the
House divided, when the second reading was carried by a
majority of 88, there being 302 for it, and 214 against it.
The House then adjourned.

At one and the same moment Great Britain and
America are placed in an attitude of considerable social
and commercial embarra:ssment, by the lengthy discus-
sion of their legislators upon questions the importance of
which is scarcely calculable. Nor is this feeling of in-
security, which shackles every mercantile matter, whether
great or small, and which is alone consequent upon
the procrastination of their Governments, modi-
fied in any way by the absolute impossibility
of conjecturing the moment when the ques-
tions at issue will be brought to an adjustment.
It is scarcely necessary to observe that their claims upon
the Oregon territories, and their proposed alteration of the
principles by which international trade has been hitherto
conducted, form the two grand subjects of interest, and
the two great causes of commercial stagnation both with
the English public and the citizens of the United States.
Our latest intelligence from New York, brought
over by the packet-ship Montezuma, gives us the debate
in the Senate of the 27th February, on which day
speeches upon the Oregon question were delivered by
Mr. WEBSTER and Mr. CRITTENDEN. Nothing
could be more pacific, conciliatory, upright,
or judicious than the sentiments expressed by these two
senators. The transatlantic discussion, in short, upon
this singular topic has assumed the colouring of Ralf-
BRANDT ; more startling effects its chiaroscuro could
not have been devised than have been afforded by the
dark and belligerent oratory of Mr. QUINCY ADAMS,
and the calm and luminous harangue of Mr. WEBSTER.
Still it would)se infinitely worse than foolishness—it
would be actually culpable—to swallow one or two
almost solitary instances of good sense on
the part of the more dispassionate among
the American statesmen, as indications of the
real spirit by which the inhabitants of the United States
are actuated towards ourselves. An occasional drop of
conciliation is immediately afterwards swamped by a
perfect torrent of invective. Some few sensible thinkers
amongst them are inclined to settle the matter now
pending with all judicial quietude and integrity ; the
vast majority, however, of their fellow-citizens are
furiously bellicose and as furiously vituperative. We
speak thus not upon mere assumptions ; the thing has
been proved long since—arbitration has been rejected—
an impertinent species of negotiation has been spoken
of, but so manifestly absurd as to require no rebuttal—
a negotiation coupled with a premise that nothing but a
total cessation of the whole of Oregon will be accepted
by the American Government! The fact has been long
clear that most hostile sentiments towards England are
rankling among a certain class across the Atlantic ; a
spirit of animosity so intense as to blind that party to
the injustice of their conduct, and to render
them indifferent to the opinions of other na-
tions and of posterity. England comes for-
ward, on the contrary, with no rancorous thoughts
of jealousy, with no undue wishes for aggrandisement ;
her propositions for a submittal of the opposite claims
to an unprejudiced tribunal, have been rejected with
the most insolent arrogance, and the most depraved dis-
regard to common honesty. Beyond a certain limit of
aggression, and beyond certain bounds of legislative
decency, it is unwise for a nation to permit :any foreign
power to proceed ;—to say the least of it, such a
spirit of tolerance would be impolitic. Great
Britain must not, cannot, will not, allow any external ,
authority to proceed beyond those recognised bounda-
ries without arising to assert her dignity, to defend
her honour, and to chastise the belligerents. His-
tory records such as her invariable behaviour in si-
milar emergencies; history will record such till her glory
is extinguished from the face of the earth. It is
doubtless, from a recognition of this fact, that some
among the most influential members of the Le-
gislature of the United States are endeavouring
to allay a spirit of animosity so unconscionable, and to
bring their countrymen to a better sense of their posi-
tion, as a civilized and Christian race, by appealing to
their reason and to their better hearts. Whether the
appeal will be responded to is very questionable indeed.
The language of Mr. CEITTENDEN, the Senator for
Kentucky, while it is sententious, is honest and
humane. He deprecates any heated vi©w of
the question ; ho requires eindour and cold
blood for its consideration. "We sHould treat this
subject," says he, " in a spirit more worthy of our-
selves." A little effervescence with him is allowable, it is
coneeivaole—not to be carped at overmuch. However,
it must be allowed to fritter itself away and ultimately
—" our decision will be marked by temperance and
justi Let Mr. QUINCY ADAMS ponder well overtensthe is . tee uttered by Mr. CRITTENDEN; let him
Il
" think well on 't," in the words of a time-honoured
adage; there is much that is applicable to himself in
its allmion. " They who should involve their country
in a needless war," exclaimed the Senator for Kentucky,
" will bear responsibility heavy enough to sink a navy, sir!'
The mode of expression alone is sufficient to authenticate
the announcement; whether Mr. C RITTENDEN was equally
justified in his subsequent declaration, that "a great
majority of the Senate is anxious, they are all anxious,
for peace," a division upon the question could alone
have proved; but that division was not required previous
to the departure of the Montezuma. We cannot refrain
from transcribing the remarks of the Senator for
Kentucky upon that arbitration which Mr. Pop had
taken upon himself to refuse :
" What a glorious homage" said he, "would this republic
render to its own best principles by accepting the arbitration
of a tribunal composed of men distinguished only for their
talents, knowledge, science, and moral worth. That would
tend greatly to the elevation of the age. Neither the steam-
boat, nor the mighty ship, which with wonderfully con-
trived machinery ploughs the ocean, defying as it were both
wind and wave, is so wonderful in the world of arts and
mechanics as in the great progress of science and civilisation
would be the spectacle of such a tribunal. And after
that great work to have proceeded from the hand of
this free Government, from republican hands, how
majestic the spectacle ! It would have been worth more
to the world than all Oregon, if every inch of it would have
been given to us; and the proud reputation and character
that would have resulted from that, would have added to
that national honour about which we talk so much, and
which is the richest inheritance of nations, a fresh lustre that
never would have faded away. It would have been far more
valuable than any territory on the north-west coast of
America."

The address of Mr. WEBSTER was characterised by a
ealm and philosophic spirit, in which he intimated his
abhorrence of uneecessary warfare, and thus con-
densed his ideas upon the delay in the negotiations.—" I
wish the country could be rid of the dispute. Take
Oregon if you can get it, hut, at all events, settle the
question between the two countries fairly and reasonably."
It is only by a persistence in these plain-spoken and
rational opinions that the ridiculous pugnacity of some
among the Americans can be purged away, and that a
peaceful settlement of the Oregon claims can be arrived
at. Should the diplomacy of the Earl of ABERDEEN
and the arguments of a WEBSTER in the end draw the
matter to that conclusion, they will have accomplished a
great moral victory. _

A Bill, entitled " Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill,"
quietly passed through the House of Lords, and was
brought to the Commons on the 19th of February.
From the title of the Bill one would suppose that it
might have reference to the great change to be produced
on turnpike-road mortgages by the extension of rail-
ways, or to the mismanagement of the trusts, or the
badness of the roads, or, in fact, anything but the real
object of the Bill, which is nothing else ikan to abridge
the comforts of the people of Scotland. By an Act
passed in the reign of the late Jiuto, justices of

the peace were authorised to grant licenses
to toll-gate keepers to sell wine, ale, spirits,
and other refreshments and provisions, for
the use of travellers, on the recommendation of
the road trustees, who, convinced of the great con-
venience and, indeed, necessity of such places of refresh-
ment, were not at all backward in granting recom-
mendations. This, it appears, has given offence to the
religious feelings of certain parties, and they resolved,
therefore, that a Bill should be brought in to prohibit
for the future the sale of refreshments at toll-bars. Mr.
Fox MALTLE had the management of the Bill in the
Commons, and urged " the crying evils"—(among others
the Gilmerton murder)—" which were proved to have
been perpetrated by drunken and dissolute carters, pur
chasing intoxicating liquors at the different toll-hoaxes
on the Sabbath. But for that he should not have
interfered in the matter." Mr. P. MAXWELL STEWART
went a little farther, for he seemed to
have some personal interest in the matter. " These
turnpikes," he said, " were inaccessible to travellers
who, like himself and other Hon. Members, were of a
sober character, in consequence of the great accumula-
tion of carriers' carts around the toll-house, the drivers
of which were inside drinking the worst kinds of
spirituous liquors." These are certainly most incom-
prehensible reasons for the Bill in question, for the
same events might occur at any public-house, and the very
measure proposed would increase the evil by lessening
the number of places of refreshment, and thereby
creating greater crowds at such places of resort. We
must, therefore, presume that there is some other reason
in the back ground, and that the Agnewites are
attempting to obtain by false pretences what they cannot
obtain in a fair, open, and manly way. If public Order is
disturbed at these places, have the justices of peace
and the magistrates not sufficient power to punish of-
fences committed there, as well as offences com-
mitted at a public-house ? There is, in fact, neither
reason nor common sense displayed in making this in-
road upon the convenience of the public, and it comes
with the worst grace, and the worst policy too, from the
Whig party. In Scotland the Whigs, much more than
in England, were looked up to by the common people as
their friends and protectors, and these very carters,
spoken of so contemptuously by Mr. Fox Matreu
and Mr. P. M. STEWART, would have been the first to
appeal to them against the Tory justices ; yet, in this
instance, they have allowed the Tories to assume their
functions, and protect the poor against the tyranny of
their old friends. One amendment proposed by the
ex-Under-Secretary for the Home Departnient, places
the matter in a clear light., lie moved that
no toll-bar house should be licensed, if within
five miles of a public-house, so that a weary traveller
from the interior of the country, and when expecting
to find refreshment on the public road, might have to
walk for some three hours longer before he could get
a glass of ale and a crust of bread. Why do not
these religions men do as they would be done by ?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM manfully set his face against this
wicked scheme, the LORD-ADVOCATE followed his ex-
ample, and the Scotch Tory Members, to their credit,
sealed its fate.

It has recently been remarked in the House of Com-
mons, that the present age is characterised by its dearth
of statesmen. No one can contemplate the politics of
the current century without acquiescing in the truth of
this observation. Compared with the galaxy of brilliant
public men who presided over and guided our national
councils towards the close of the past century, we have
bad for the last forty years none (CANNING excepted) of
the same intellectual stature, either to assume the helm
or assist in navigating the vessel of the State. CANNiNG's
attainment of the highest point of influence in this country
was almost coeval with his death. His was felt to be
an irreparable loss, and the suddenness of the blow gave
a shock to our hopes that vibrated to the very extremi-
ties of our dominions. The sequel has justified the
strength and accuracy of the national sensation that
accompanied his descent to the tomb. In a thorough
knowledge of the difficulties and dangers of the political
ocean he sought to traverse, his mind stood without a
competitor. He possessed the experience and the fore-
sight to predict and mark the coming storm. But, un-
fortunately, when he would have steered us in safety
into the haven of civil and religious liberty, he was
thwarted by his rivals for power, and fell a victim
to grief, occasioned by the fierce opposition he had
to encounter. As it was long before his accession to the
office of Prime Minister, so has it been since his melan-
choly end, that this country has been without the in-
appreciable advantage of a statesman capable of suffici-
ently anticipating by legislation the various and nascent
wants of our empire. The consequence has been, that
the functions properly belonging to the rulers have been
assumed by the governed ; and, in lieu of witnessing the
elements of discontent destroyed by seasonable acts of the
State, we have only beheld a series of graceless concessions,
the immediate fruits of wholesale agitation. In this view
the most valuable province of the executive—that of
taking the initiative in all matters of legislation required
by the growing wants of our countrymen, conformably '
with the new phases continually presented by the deve-
lopment of our extraordinary and vast resources—has of
late years been altogether usurped. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON proclaimed this fact in his speech of Monday,
when he serially enumerated the different concessions
we have made to Ireland, all of which have resulted
from the force of agitation. But true as this is, does it
not convey a great reproach to the political
capacity of those who have, from time to time,
by the offices they have accepted, undertaken
to organize a healthier state of things ? The Duke of
WELLINGTON drew the attention of Parliament to the
frequent concessions granted of late years to Ireland,
and yielded in a way he must have felt reluctant to
confess, with the object of deterring the House of Ldrds
from supporting Earl GREY'S address to the Throne.
But, in order to have given weight to his counsel in the
eyes of the country, his Grace should have shown, if he
could, that the matters conceded had not worked well,
or that being bad in themselves, they ought to be re-
pealed, and that only for the baneful effects of
such extorted legislation, the state of Ireland
would have been more favourable than what it
is known to be. We look in vain, however,
for even the shadow of an attempt at such an argument,
and are consequently thrown back upon the inference
that what has been wrought, albeit in an objectionable
manner, have been SO many moves in the right direction,
productive of partial, though very inadequate, good to
Ireland ; and that had not the people combined and
gained for themselves what the Imperial Parliament
has at different times been so loth to surrender, it might
now have been our lot to deal with consequences
.far
more fearful than those in which we are already in-
volved. The Duke of WELLINGTON himself advised the
passing of the Catholic Belief Bill on the ground
that to refuse it might provoke a civil war : his Grace's
renowned career in other countries has led him, perhaps
more than any other living man, to know that
" Civil dissension is a vip'rous worm,
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
We have a high authority for believing that, had justice
not been meted out to the Catholics in 1829, agitation
would have plunged us into the horrors of internal
discord. The Duke would be the last man to suggest
the re-enactment of their civil disabilities. Then, if his
own measure was good in itself, and the same can. be
said of others that have since become the law of the
land, does it not put a premium on agitation,
and cast a slur upon statesmen living and dead, to ;re-
vive the recollection of the instrumentality by which its
success was insured? The moral to be read from fthe
circumstances thus forced upon our attention is, that
great as are the qualities with which our leading states-
men are undoubtedly gifted, they have nevertheless been
grievously deficient in the chief qualification necessary
for the satisfactory discharge of the duties that devolved
upon them, by the high positions they have alternately
occupied, and that if they wish to emulate their cele-
brated predecessors in office of the past age, they must
anticipate, more than they have hitherto done, the
elastic desires of the community at large, and, by a fore-
seeing wisdom, provide the machinery that will give a
safe and healthy direction, under any circumstances that
may arise, to the untiring energies and exhaustless in-
dustry of our hardy population. Ireland it is that now
presents the field for exemplifying this coveted wisdom.
For her relief some active and comprehensive measures
are instantly required, and the only way in which we
can hope to see agitation in that country successfully put
and end to, is by the moat eminent men of all parties
being animated by the same spirit that governed the con-
duct of our ancestors whenever they had to grapple with
any prominent political evils.

We have received Madrid journals of the 19th, from which
we learn that the manifesto of the new Cabinet, the suspen-
sion of the Cortes, and the ordonnance for destroying the
liberty of the press, had created a most painful sensation in
the capital. It was currently reported that the proprietors of
most of the journals had held a meeting to determine what
course they should adopt under the circumstances, and that
they had come to the resolution of suspending their publica-
tion for the present. On this subject the Eco del Comercio says,
"It has been announced that the Eco dcl Comercio, the
Espectador, and the Clamor Publico, will cease to be pub-
lished. As far as we are concerned, we shall appear until the
Government prevents us." The Universal thus adverts to
the new decrees The Ministry has suspended the Cortes
without voting the supplies. Thia is the first step, and also
the coup d'etat—the first re-actionary measure. This will of
ouro, by Wowed up ley other ikailar actiN sad, is a abort

time Spain will find itself under the yoke of a Dictatorship
as stupid as that of Rosis, and as violent as that of SANTA
Amu." But NARVAEZ still finds supporters among the
fighting men. On the 19th the Captain-General of Madrid,
the inspectors of the army and navy, a great number of
officers of all ranks, and all the officers of the garrison, went
to the War-office to present their congratulation. to General
NARTARA. The Bourse:was closed on the 19th, in consequence
of the feast of St. Jour, but several private bargains wore
made at higher price&

Most of the Paris papers of Wednesday contain articles on
the late extraordinary events which have taken place at
Madrid, and unanimously denounce the conduct of the Dic-
tator. The Constitutionnd infers that these violent measures
have not been taken without the tacit consent of France.
"General Nenvira.," it says, "was the natural instrument
of the Palace conspiracy. We fear that the representative of
France was aware of it from the beginning, and that he
rather seconded than arrested the movement which was in
preparation. For a long time the Parliamentary men of
Spain complained of the intimacy existing between our Am-
bassador and General NAnVAEZ, and of his leaning towards
the theories of arbitrary power in Spain. Many persons
have been struck in France with the manner in which our
Ministry was made acquainted with the retreat of the Spa-
nish Cabinet and the accession of NAIVVAEZ several days
before the fact had taken place." The Prase, considered
the organ of Queen CM:MINA, after condemning, in strong
terms, the coup d'etat, thus draws the character of BIABOA,
appointed political chief of Madrid :

" This man, General Balboa, has passed before a council of
war accused of more than 80 crimes, for each of which he
was deemed worthy of death. We shall mention only two.
Sent to La Mancha, at the period when Palillos was devas-
tating that province, he had arrested in a mass all the persons
suspected of Carlism and all the relations of the persons
serving in the army of the pretender. The prisons were
encumbered. One day he gave orders that lots should be
cast for the prisoners to be first shot Among those oa whom
the lot fell was a little child five years of age. The
officer in command informed Generel Balboa of the
matter, adding that be supposed it was lot his
intention to shoot a child of that age. 'lf he is not
shot in two hours it is you that shall be shot in his
place,' was the reply of the General. An hour after the
child came out of prison. To bring him before the platoon
charged with the execution an orange was thrown, and it
was whilst pursuing it that the child fell pierced with four
bullets. Another day, General Balboa had a woman shot
who was more than eight months gone with child. A.
accoucheut was present, with orders to save the child when
its mother was dead. A servant of the General, a negro
freed at the Havannah, publicly made the following declara-
tion I do not recoil at a small matter : I have eaten
human flesh I but I declare that it was impossible for me to
endure any longer the horrors committed by my master.'
Such is the man who has just been nominated Prefect of
Madrid. The most dreadful events may be expected, the
Ministry standing alone against all parties."
Even the Univers, the organ of the High Church party,
though NARVAZZ and CHRISTINA, are bent on reconciling
the Spanish Church to Rome and restoring the clergy to
their former power, cannot reconcile itself to this " opera-
tor of coups d'etat, who places virtue in his sword and
and nothing else."

The aceounts received from Poland are of a melancholy
character. The Russian Government had commenced the
work of punishment in the most fearful manner. Several
leaders of the insurrection at Siedlee had been tried by a
court-martial, condemned, and executed. The Universal
Prussian Gazette publishes the following account taken from
the Warsaw Courier, but it gives no date :
" The undermentioned is the result of the investigation
set on foot owing to the events at Siedlee, and the arrests of
various persons r--
. 1. That a conspiracy took place with ramifications in the
Polish provinces.
" 2. That the head of the conspiracy, Bronislas Dombrow-
ski, sent from Posen, was chosen leader of the conspiracy on
the right bank of the Vistula.

" 3: That the principal abettors were Pantaldon Po-
toski, Stanislas Koeischewski, Ladislas Zarski, Jean
Lytinski, Michel Mirezki, and Anthony Deskur.
The agents and accomplicess of Dombrowski were
Stephen Dobrytsch and Charles Ruprecht. All these indivi-
duals, brought before a council if war, have been found guilty
of rebellion and sedition. According to the powers intrusted
by his Majesty the Emperor, the Prince-Governor, after
sentence of death was pronounced, has ordered Potozki,
Kseischewski, and Zarski to be hung, the first at Siedlee, the
other two at Warsaw. As regards Dobritch and Ruprecht.
their sentence is to be commuted on the scaffold to
banishment to Siberia, with a loss of all their rights,
Mirezki and Deskur are deprived of all their rights, and
share the same fate as Dobritsch and Rupreeht. Lytinski,
who showed a thee repentance, is equally banished to Sibe-
ria, with the loss of all his rights, after receiving 500 stripes.
The law to enter into full force, as regards the confiscation
of their property, according to Art. 178, book let of the mili-
tary criminal code. As regards any property falling to them
by inheritance it will be judged according to Polish law.
This sentence was fulfilled the following day at ten a.m., in
front of the citadel, with the exception of Potozki."
The official Gazette of Vienna contains the following de-
cree of the EMPEROR, pronounced against the family of Prince
CZARTORMIKI, now residing at Paris :—" The EMPEROR hav-
ing learned that the Prince CZARTORIERI had declared to a
deputation of Poles in Paris that he approved of the insur-
rection in Poland, has ordered the Aulic Council to prohibit
the Prince CZARTORISKI, the Princess, and their descendants,
from disposing of any property, landed or personal, they may
possess in the Austrian States, or receiving any revenue
arising therefrom, until further orders."
The closing prices of the funds and railway shares on the
Paris Bourse on Saturday, were given in The Sun of yester-
day.

BITSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Marten 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Bordeauz, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2—Ditto (Espeleta), 2—Dutch Rhenish, b% —East In-
dian, 14—Great Northern of Franco Constituted, 15%—Luxembourg,
—Narear and Liege, 2—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12% —Over Yssel,
dis.—Sinabre and Meuse, 3y2 —Tours and Nantes Constituted, 7.

SCENE OF THE SEAT OF WAR ON
THE SUTLEJ.

For the convenience of those who take an interest in
the deeds of our gallant troops, and their equally gallant
auxiliaries in India, we publish this day a sketch of the
country on the banks of the Sutlej, now rendered famous
by three great victories. It has been laid down by
Mr. Wryld, of Charing-cross, so well known for
his skill and accuracy as a geographer, who has
devoted much attention to the subject, and spared
no pains in ascertaining the localities of the principal
towns and villages mentioned in the Government dis-
patches. It will be found extremely useful in reading
the accounts of the late battles, as well as those which
we fear are yet to take place.

Taz LATE Ma. LOUDON.—We are happy to learn
that a pension for life of 1001. per annum ha■ been granted by her
Majesty to Mrs. Loudon. Sir Eotert Peel has just communicated to
Mrs. Loudon this act of beneficence. To her it will be doubly grate-
ful, as it is conferred in consideration of her deceased husband's
labours and writings on subjects of natural science.

THE PEERS AND FREETRADE.--A umeting of Peers,
very numerously attended, took place on Wednesday, at the
Clarendon Hotel, at which it was unanimously resolved to op-
pose, by every constitutional means, the progress of the Government
free trade measures in the House of Lords.—Post. • -

ILLUMINATION.—On the occasion ofhis Royal High-
am Prince George of Cambridge's birth-day, Mr. Turner, goldsmitk
and jeweller, had a magnificent star of Brunswick, with the imperial
crown. _ _

IHE ALLEGED MURDER AT BETHNAL. GREEN.—
On Thursday Mr. Baker held en inquiry at the Hare Tavern, Cam-
bridge Heath-road, on the body of Mrs. Rebecca Zabel, who, it was
alleged, had died in consequence of ill-treatment by her husband,
when, after a protracted investigation, the jury returned a verdict of
died from natural causes.
WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—On Wednesday morning,
about noon, as a lad, named Benjamin Goodwin, twelve years of age,
an apprentice to a law stationer near Chancery-lane, was returning
from Parliament-street, Westminster, he got up behind a cab, and
rode. On arriving opposite Agar-street he alighted, and was cross-
ing the Strand, when he was knocked dawn by a Blackwell omnibus,
and the fore-wheel of the vehicle completely passed over his body
between the shoulders and waist. He was at once conveyed to
Charing-cross Hospital, when it was discovered, to the astonishment
of the medical gentlemen who attended him, that not a bone in his
body was broken, and that he hail sustained only a momentary sus-
pension of his faculties. His escape from instant death is extraordi-
nary, more particularly so when it is known that the omnibus was at
the time filled with passengers.
DARING ROBBERY.—Wednesday information was for-
warded to the police of a most daring robbery, committed at Mt.
Haresford's, 21, High-street, Marylebone, the thieves effecting an
entrance early in the evening, and carrying off thirteen coats, in the
pocket of one there being four 5/. Bank of England notes, forty waist-
coats, and about twenty-eight pair of trowsers ; as well as a writing-
desk, containing cash, jewellery, diamond rings, &c.
GROWTH OF CORN IN RUSSIA.—There are many con-
tingencies agatnit the growth of heavy crops of corn in Russia, and
amenget them the severity of the drought, which upon the stiff lands
at times quite impedes the plough and prevents sowing the crops
until the spring, and then the season is so short, that the rapid growth
operates against the yield. Of this, hi conjunction with the sudden
change the grain itself undergoes, from a green and milky state to
that of a hard and ripened one, I could hardly have formed the re-
motest idea, had I not witnessed the fact in my journey from At.
Petersburgh to Moscow, by examining many of the corn fields. The
straw was then perfectly green and the grain in a milky state, and
so satisfied did I feel that I should quit that part of Russia before
harvest, that I wrote to England regretting the circumstance; how-
ever, to my utter astonishment, on returning the same road nine
days afterwards (14th of August, 1842), thousands of acres were cut,
and some carted and thrashed for seeding the land for the next crop,
which should be put in before the latter end of that month.—Rough
Notes of a Farmer during an Agricultural Tour.
MERCHANTS' AND TRADERS' ASSOCIATION, FOR THE
PROSECUTION OF SWINDLERS, AND OTHER PURPOSES, FOR THE PRO-
TECTION OF TRADE, 101, WOOD-STREET, CHEATSIDE.—A large party
of influential gentlemen, Members of this Asseciation, dined together
at the London Tavern on Wednesday. Sir James Duke, M.P., the
President of the Society, was in the chair. Several excellent addresses
were made in the course of the evening, by the President, Solicitor,
Secretary, and Members cf the Committee, setting forth the advan-
tages which the subscribers derived from the working of the Associa-
tion. The funds were stated to be in a prosperous condition, and the
Society was represented to be daily increasing. The proceedings of
the evening appeared to be highly satisfactory to the members, and
there was some excellent singing by Mr. Taylor and his party. The
company separated about eleven o'clockß.
MUTILATED LETTERS. WECK OF THE GREAT
LIVERPOOL.—So saturated and mutilated were the letters and news-
papers washed from the wreck of the Great Liverpool, that it was
with the greatest difficulty the executive officers of the General Post-
office could make out any of the addresses upon them, and even up to
last evening (Wednesday) the whole of them had not been disposed
of. As a precautionary measure, and for the purpose of preventing
complaints from parties to whom the letters might in any case be
delivered, the authorities have had a special stamp struck upon such
letters, notifying that such lettor or newspaper was "saved from the
wreck of the Great Liverpool.''
LAUNCH OF A NEW IRON STEAM VESSEL.—Wednes-
day, a new iron steam-vessel was launched from the building-yard of
Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, at Blackwell. It was built by those
gentlemen for the Norfolk Steam Navigation Company, a proprietary
composed of the principal shippers, merchants, and tradesmen resi-
dent in Yarmouth and Norwich, and their respectives vicinities, be-
tween which places and London she is intended to ply, in place of the
Ailsa Craig, which vessel has, in conjunction with the General Steam
Navigation Company's vessels, hitherto occupied that station. She
is a very handsome vessel, her length overall is 165 feet, extreme
breadth 22 feet, the present draught of water only three feet six
inches, and when fully laden with cargo, computed to be less than
seven feet, so that she will have the advantage of entering and leav-
ing Yarmouth harbour at any time of tide.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received Gene-
ral Espartero and the Duchess of Victoria and Mademoiselle E. Es-
partero, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leveson
Gower, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Glenelg, Lord Harry Vane, Lord and
Lady Kinnaird, Lady Ashley, Lord Dunkellen, Colonel Fox, Mr.
Rogers, and a select party, to dinner on Wednesday, at their mansion
in Carlton-house-terrace. A small party assembled in the evening, in-
cluding his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Marquis and :Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde, Lord Ashley, Viscount and Vl'ccuntess
Mahon, the Hon. Mr. Stanley, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn,
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